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Kentucky Hospital Price Report

What hospitals charge for shoppable care across Kentucky — drawn from 60 hospitals' machine-readable files. Figures are medians with robust 10th–90th-percentile ranges across hospitals in the state.

The same procedure, wildly different prices

Even within Kentucky, the negotiated price at a pricier hospital can be many times what a cheaper one charges — for the same service.

ProcedureTypical range (10th–90th pct)MedianHospitals
Allergy Skin Testing$5 – $1,455$94016
Anesthesia for Upper Endoscopy$25 – $2,308$88110
Anesthesia for Screening Colonoscopy$25 – $1,168$1,02810
IUD Insertion$91 – $3,215$1,99730
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$103 – $2,835$1,58037
Prostate Biopsy$289 – $4,791$1,98634
Skin Biopsy (Tangential)$160 – $2,328$25630
Basic Metabolic Panel$8 – $112$1145

Cash can beat the list price

The “gross” charge is the hospital's list price; the cash price is what many will accept from a self-pay patient. For these procedures in Kentucky, the cash price is a fraction of the list price.

ProcedureCash (median)Gross / list (median)
Skin Lesion Removal (Benign, up to 0.5 cm)$1,135$3,365
Sinus Surgery (Endoscopic, with Tissue Removal)$748$2,136
Newborn Circumcision$1,313$3,678
Skin Biopsy (Tangential)$296$768
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$7,396$19,082
Rotator Cuff Repair (Arthroscopic)$6,815$17,038

The most expensive shoppable procedures in Kentucky

ProcedureMedian negotiatedHospitals
Cardiac Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation$22,99723
Lumbar Spinal Fusion (Posterior)$17,33425
Total Hip Replacement$12,56735
Total Knee Replacement$12,56735
Cervical Spinal Fusion (Anterior)$12,47229
Coronary Angioplasty with Stent$10,63925

Medians and percentiles are computed across each hospital's representative facility price, from its latest machine-readable file. See methodology for how prices are derived.

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