Alcohol & Drug Use (Left Against Medical Advice) Cost in Kentucky — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for alcohol or drug use problems in which the patient chose to leave before doctors recommended discharge. Care during the stay typically focuses on safe withdrawal and stabilization.
State average
$13,801
gross charge · DRG 894
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$2,188 – $34,335
low to high
Data notes for Kentucky
- The lowest published charge ($2,188 at Monroe County Medical Center) 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
- 1
Monroe County Medical Center
Tompkinsville, KY
Gross charge $2,188Cash pay $1,816 - 2
Pineville Community Health Center
Pineville, KY
Gross charge $4,357 - 3
UK St. Claire
Morehead, KY
Gross charge $9,387Cash pay $7,040 - 4
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $11,200Cash pay $7,280 - 5
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $11,200Cash pay $7,280 - 6
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $11,200Cash pay $7,280 - 7
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 8
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 9
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 10
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 11
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 12
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 13
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $12,324Cash pay $9,243 - 14
Three Rivers Medical Center
Louisa, KY
Gross charge $15,663Cash pay $9,398 - 15
Kentucky River Medical Center
Jackson, KY
Gross charge $16,800Cash pay $10,080 - 16
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $32,014Cash pay $12,806 - 17
Meadowview Regional Medical Center
Maysville, KY
Gross charge $34,335Cash pay $13,734 - 18
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge — - 19
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 20Gross charge —
- 21
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 22
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 23
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 24
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 25
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 26
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 27
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 28
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 29
Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital
Paducah, KY
Gross charge — - 30
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 31
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —
- 33
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —
17 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for alcohol & drug use (left against medical advice) under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $2,188 to $34,335. The cheapest is Monroe County Medical Center in Tompkinsville; the most expensive is Meadowview Regional Medical Center in Maysville. The state average sits at $13,801.
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 alcohol & drug use (left against medical advice) 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 alcohol & drug use (left against medical advice) 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 alcohol & drug use (left against medical advice) in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 894 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.