DRG 502 · Musculoskeletal

Soft Tissue Surgery Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery on muscles, tendons, or other soft tissues, such as removing a growth or repairing damaged tissue. The stay includes the operation and monitoring of the surgical site during early healing.

State average
$36,598
gross charge · DRG 502
Hospitals
18
with published pricing
Price range
$8,593 – $65,080
low to high
Lowest $8,593 Highest $65,080

18 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for soft tissue surgery under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $8,593 to $65,080. The cheapest is UK St. Claire in Morehead; the most expensive is Jackson Purchase Medical Center in Mayfield. The state average sits at $36,598.

What's listed is each hospital's gross charge — its published price for the inpatient stay, before any insurance discount. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists soft tissue surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling soft tissue surgery in Kentucky, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.

Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Kentucky hospitals missing from the list either don't perform soft tissue surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 502 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    UK St. Claire

    Morehead, KY

    Gross charge $8,593
    Cash pay $6,445
  2. 2

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $25,362
    Cash pay $16,485
  3. 3

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $25,362
    Cash pay $16,485
  4. 4

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $25,362
    Cash pay $16,485
  5. 5

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  6. 6

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  7. 7

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  8. 8

    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  9. 9

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  11. 11

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $28,160
    Cash pay $21,120
  12. 12

    Taylor Regional Hospital

    Campbellsville, KY

    Gross charge $33,575
    Cash pay $16,788
  13. 13

    Pineville Community Health Center

    Pineville, KY

    Gross charge $47,412
  14. 14

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $53,565
  15. 15

    Meadowview Regional Medical Center

    Maysville, KY

    Gross charge $55,330
    Cash pay $22,132
  16. 16

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $58,431
    Cash pay $23,373
  17. 17
    Gross charge $63,571
    Cash pay $41,321
  18. 18

    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $65,080
    Cash pay $26,032
  19. 19

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

    Gross charge
  20. 20

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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  21. 21
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  22. 22

    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

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  23. 23
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  24. 24

    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  25. 25

    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

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  26. 26

    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

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  27. 27

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

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  28. 28

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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  29. 29

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

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  30. 30

    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

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  31. 31

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  32. 32

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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  33. 33
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  34. 34

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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