DRG 501 · Musculoskeletal

Soft Tissue Surgery Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals

An operation on muscles, tendons, or other soft tissues, such as removing a growth or repairing damaged tissue. The stay covers the surgery, wound care, and early recovery.

State average
$40,888
gross charge · DRG 501
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$25,947 – $86,359
low to high
Lowest $25,947 Highest $86,359

17 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for soft tissue surgery under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $25,947 to $86,359. The cheapest is Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care) in Murray; the most expensive is Meadowview Regional Medical Center in Maysville. The state average sits at $40,888.

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 501 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
    Gross charge $25,947
    Cash pay $16,865
  2. 2

    Taylor Regional Hospital

    Campbellsville, KY

    Gross charge $28,295
    Cash pay $14,147
  3. 3

    Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital

    Greenville, KY

    Gross charge $31,196
    Cash pay $20,277
  4. 4

    Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Owensboro, KY

    Gross charge $31,196
    Cash pay $20,277
  5. 5

    Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center

    Leitchfield, KY

    Gross charge $31,196
    Cash pay $20,277
  6. 6

    Baptist Health Hardin

    Elizabethtown, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  7. 7

    Baptist Health Richmond

    Richmond, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  8. 8

    Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)

    Corbin, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  9. 9

    Baptist Health Lexington

    Lexington, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  10. 10

    Baptist Health Paducah

    Paducah, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  11. 11

    Baptist Health Louisville

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  12. 12

    Baptist Health La Grange

    La Grange, KY

    Gross charge $31,927
    Cash pay $23,945
  13. 13

    UK St. Claire

    Morehead, KY

    Gross charge $32,784
    Cash pay $24,588
  14. 14

    Norton Hospitals, Inc

    Louisville, KY

    Gross charge $57,682
  15. 15

    Jackson Purchase Medical Center

    Mayfield, KY

    Gross charge $68,169
    Cash pay $27,268
  16. 16

    Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)

    Somerset, KY

    Gross charge $78,781
    Cash pay $31,512
  17. 17

    Meadowview Regional Medical Center

    Maysville, KY

    Gross charge $86,359
    Cash pay $34,544
  18. 18

    Whitesburg ARH Hospital

    Whitesburg, KY

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  19. 19

    Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center

    Prestonsburg, KY

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  20. 20

    UK King's Daughters Medical Center

    Ashland, KY

    Gross charge
  21. 21

    Saint Joseph Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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  22. 22
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  23. 23

    UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital

    Shelbyville, KY

    Gross charge
  24. 24

    Middlesboro ARH Hospital

    Middlesboro, KY

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  25. 25
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  26. 26
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  27. 27

    UofL Health – Jewish Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  28. 28

    Harlan ARH Hospital

    Harlan, KY

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  29. 29

    Jennie Stuart Medical Center

    Hopkinsville, KY

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  30. 30

    Deaconess Henderson Hospital

    Henderson, KY

    Gross charge
  31. 31

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling

    Mount Sterling, KY

    Gross charge
  32. 32

    Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center

    South Williamson, KY

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  33. 33

    Paintsville ARH Hospital

    Paintsville, KY

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  34. 34

    Harrison Memorial Hospital

    Cynthiana, KY

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  35. 35

    Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)

    Madisonville, KY

    Gross charge
  36. 36

    Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital

    Paducah, KY

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  37. 37

    University of Louisville Hospital

    Louisville, KY

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  38. 38

    CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East

    Lexington, KY

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  39. 39
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  40. 40

    Morgan County ARH Hospital

    West Liberty, KY

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  41. 41
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  42. 42

    Knox County Hospital

    Barbourville, KY

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  43. 43
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  44. 44

    McDowell ARH Hospital

    Mc Dowell, KY

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  45. 45

    University of Kentucky Hospital

    Lexington, KY

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