Stroke Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals
A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain. Hospital care includes brain imaging, close monitoring, and in some cases a clot-dissolving drug (tPA) given soon after symptoms start, followed by early rehabilitation planning.
State average
$22,767
gross charge · DRG 065
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$4,748 – $34,431
low to high
Data notes for Nebraska
- The lowest published charge ($4,748 at Memorial Community Hospital & Health System) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1Gross charge $4,748Cash pay $3,799
- 2
Kimball Health Services
Kimball, NE
Gross charge $13,203 - 3
St Francis Memorial Hospital
West Point, NE
Gross charge $15,155 - 4
Memorial Health Care Systems
Seward, NE
Gross charge $17,747 - 5
Phelps Memorial Health Center
Holdrege, NE
Gross charge $22,457Cash pay $20,212 - 6
Cherry County Hospital
Valentine, NE
Gross charge $26,733Cash pay $24,059 - 7
Mary Lanning Healthcare
Hastings, NE
Gross charge $28,814Cash pay $25,932Medicare pays (avg) $5,795 - 8
Grand Island Regional Medical Center
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge $29,951 - 9
The Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE
Gross charge $34,431Cash pay $22,380Medicare pays (avg) $8,389 - 10
Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center
Bellevue, NE
Gross charge $34,431Cash pay $22,380Medicare pays (avg) $5,356 - 11
CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)
Kearney, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,905 - 12
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,557 - 13
CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)
Grand Island, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,349 - 14
Methodist Hospital
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,760 - 15Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,337
- 16
Regional West Medical Center
Scottsbluff, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,827 - 17
Methodist Fremont Health
Fremont, NE
Gross charge — - 18
Chi Health Immanuel
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,301 - 19
Chi Health Midlands
Papillion, NE
Gross charge — - 20
Columbus Community Hospital, Inc
Columbus, NE
Gross charge — - 21
CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)
Lincoln, NE
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Health Lakeside
Omaha, NE
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,202 - 23
Midwest Surgical Hospital Llc
Omaha, NE
Gross charge — - 24
CHI Health Schuyler
Schuyler, NE
Gross charge — - 25
Chi Health St. Marys
Nebraska City, NE
Gross charge — - 26
Plainview Hospital
Plainview, NE
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —Cash pay $16,162
Nebraska hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 065) anywhere from $4,748 to $34,431 — a $29,683 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Memorial Community Hospital & Health System in Blair; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $22,767.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 stroke 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 stroke 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. Nebraska hospitals missing from the list either don't perform stroke in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 065 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.