Stomach & Esophagus Surgery Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery on the stomach, esophagus, or the first part of the small intestine, such as repairing a hiatal hernia or treating severe reflux. The stay includes the operation and a gradual return to eating as the digestive tract heals.
State average
$62,501
gross charge · DRG 328
Hospitals
15
with published pricing
Price range
$42,528 – $166,047
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care)
Murray, KY
Gross charge $42,528Cash pay $27,643 - 2
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 3
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 4
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 5
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 6
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 7
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362Medicare pays (avg) $8,787 - 8
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $48,482Cash pay $36,362 - 9
Spring View Hospital
Lebanon, KY
Gross charge $49,212Cash pay $19,685 - 10
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $50,031Cash pay $32,520 - 11
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $50,031Cash pay $32,520 - 12
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $50,031Cash pay $32,520 - 13
Jackson Purchase Medical Center
Mayfield, KY
Gross charge $78,454Cash pay $31,382 - 14
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $111,806Cash pay $44,722 - 15
Kentucky River Medical Center
Jackson, KY
Gross charge $166,047Cash pay $99,628 - 16
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 17
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 18Gross charge —
- 19
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 20
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 21
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 22
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 23
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 24
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 25
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 26
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 27
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 28
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 29Gross charge —
- 30
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,418 - 31
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,551 - 32Gross charge —
- 33
Tug Valley ARH Regional Medical Center
South Williamson, KY
Gross charge —
15 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for stomach & esophagus surgery under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $42,528 to $166,047. The cheapest is Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care) in Murray; the most expensive is Kentucky River Medical Center in Jackson. The state average sits at $62,501.
What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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 stomach & esophagus surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent stomach & esophagus surgery admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
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 stomach & esophagus surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 328 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.