DRG 064 · Nervous System

Stroke Cost in Nebraska — Compare All Hospitals

A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain, accompanied by other serious medical problems. Care involves rapid brain imaging, close monitoring in a stroke or intensive care unit, and early rehabilitation once the patient is stable.

State average
$40,172
gross charge · DRG 064
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$18,062 – $61,438
low to high
Lowest $18,062 Highest $61,438

Nebraska hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 064) anywhere from $18,062 to $61,438 — a $43,376 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Phelps Memorial Health Center in Holdrege; the most expensive is Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center in Bellevue. The state average sits at $40,172.

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 064 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

    Phelps Memorial Health Center

    Holdrege, NE

    Gross charge $18,062
    Cash pay $16,256
  2. 2

    Tri Valley Health System

    Cambridge, NE

    Gross charge $18,332
    Cash pay $16,499
  3. 3

    St Francis Memorial Hospital

    West Point, NE

    Gross charge $30,165
  4. 4
    Gross charge $30,278
    Cash pay $24,222
  5. 5

    Mary Lanning Healthcare

    Hastings, NE

    Gross charge $43,459
    Cash pay $39,113
  6. 6

    Grand Island Regional Medical Center

    Grand Island, NE

    Gross charge $58,206
  7. 7

    The Nebraska Medical Center

    Omaha, NE

    54 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $61,438
    Cash pay $39,935
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,381
  8. 8

    Nebraska Medicine Bellevue Health Center

    Bellevue, NE

    Gross charge $61,438
    Cash pay $39,935
  9. 9

    CHI Health Good Samaritan (Acute Care)

    Kearney, NE

    27 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,415
  10. 10

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 70th St)

    Lincoln, NE

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,037
  11. 11

    CHI Health St. Francis (Acute Care)

    Grand Island, NE

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,331
  12. 12

    Methodist Hospital

    Omaha, NE

    46 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,910
  13. 13

    CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy

    Omaha, NE

    76 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,032
  14. 14

    Regional West Medical Center

    Scottsbluff, NE

    18 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,112
  15. 15

    Methodist Fremont Health

    Fremont, NE

    Gross charge
  16. 16

    Chi Health Immanuel

    Omaha, NE

    23 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $14,661
  17. 17

    Chi Health Midlands

    Papillion, NE

    Gross charge
  18. 18

    Columbus Community Hospital, Inc

    Columbus, NE

    Gross charge
  19. 19

    CHI Health St. Elizabeth (S 91st St)

    Lincoln, NE

    Gross charge
  20. 20

    CHI Health Lakeside

    Omaha, NE

    24 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,974
  21. 21
    Gross charge
  22. 22

    CHI Health Schuyler

    Schuyler, NE

    Gross charge
  23. 23

    Chi Health St. Marys

    Nebraska City, NE

    Gross charge
  24. 24

    Plainview Hospital

    Plainview, NE

    Gross charge
  25. 25
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $31,862
  26. 26
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