Great Bend Area Hospital Prices
Cash and insurance-negotiated prices at hospitals in and around Great Bend, KS. Part of all Kansas hospital prices.
Typical commercial prices here are 45% below the fair benchmark (0.55×) after accounting for local nurse/doctor wages and patient complexity.
Most affordable Kansas hospital: University of Ks Hlth System Great Bend Campus (Great Bend) at 0.55× the fair price (45% below benchmark).
Uniform Value Leader · Low-Cost Across Departments
This hospital maintains low, disciplined commercial pricing across both routine shoppable procedures (0.6× Medicare, p50 0.45× Fair BaseRate) and emergency/ancillary services (1.0× Medicare, p75 0.82× Fair BaseRate). Both insured and self-pay patients benefit from below-benchmark rates across departments.
Where They're Good (Patient & Payer Edge)
- Elective shoppable care is priced 45% below peer Fair BaseRate (0.55×)
- Self-pay cash beats commercial insurance on 67% of shoppable procedures (99/100 Cash Honesty)
- 4-Star CMS clinical rating with 57% patient recommendation (68/100 safety score)
- Binding Good Faith Estimate rights under 45 CFR § 149.610 protect self-pay patients before scheduling
Where You Can Get Burned (Markup Traps)
- Outpatient surgery & OR suites carry a 1.9× markup over Medicare rates
- Captive ER (1.5×) & laboratory (2.3×) services average 1.67× higher multiples than routine shoppable care (0.6×)
- Upper-quartile procedures (Q75 0.82×) jump +82% above the median procedure ratio (Q50 0.45×)
- Consolidated metro market (HHI 4,998) limits in-network hospital competition (Highly Concentrated Monopoly (>2,500))
Pre-scheduled outpatient procedures where patients can comparison-shop.
Emergency, inpatient DRG, lab, and specialty drug lines billed after admission.
Detects median-gaming when upper-quartile codes spike above the p50 median.
Hospitals in the Great Bend area
Ranked by how their prices compare to the fair BaseRate — best value first. The × fair figure is geo-adjusted. Tap any hospital for its full price list.
- University of Ks Hlth System Great Bend Campus · Great Bend 72/100 72 priced 0.55× fair
- Clara Barton Hospital · Hoisington 84/100 69 priced 1.55× fair
- Ellinwood District Hospital · Ellinwood 74/100 no price data
Compare prices by procedure in Great Bend
Local prices across Great Bend-area hospitals for 54 procedures.
- Blood antibody screen
- Blood transfusion
- CT scan, abdomen and pelvis (no contrast)
- CT scan, abdomen and pelvis (with contrast)
- CT scan, chest (no contrast)
- CT scan, head (no contrast)
- CT scan, head (with and without contrast)
- CT scan, head (with contrast)
- CT scan, lower back (lumbar spine)
- CT scan, neck (cervical spine)
- CT scan, pelvis
- CT scan, sinuses
- DTaP vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis)
- Diagnostic mammogram (both breasts)
- Diagnostic procedure preparation
- Digestive disorders treatment (inpatient stay)
- Echocardiogram (heart ultrasound)
- Electrical stimulation therapy
- Electrocardiogram (EKG, tracing only)
- Flu vaccine (high dose)
- Hepatitis B vaccine
- Hip or knee replacement (inpatient stay)
- MRI, brain (no contrast)
- MRI, brain (with and without contrast)
- MRI, knee or other leg joint
- MRI, lower back (no contrast)
- Occupational therapy (self-care training)
- Occupational therapy (therapeutic activities)
- Office visit, established patient (20-29 min)
- Office visit, established patient (30-39 min)
- Physical therapy (functional capacity test)
- Physical therapy (gait training)
- Physical therapy (manual therapy)
- Physical therapy (neuromuscular re-education)
- Physical therapy (therapeutic exercise)
- Pneumococcal vaccine
- Screening mammogram (both breasts)
- Sepsis treatment (inpatient stay)
- Speech therapy (language evaluation)
- Tdap vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis)
- Typhoid vaccine
- Ultrasound, abdomen (complete)
- Ultrasound, abdomen (limited)
- Ultrasound, leg veins (duplex)
- Ultrasound, pelvis
- Ultrasound, thyroid and neck
- X-ray, ankle
- X-ray, chest (two views)
- X-ray, foot
- X-ray, hand
- X-ray, hip
- X-ray, lower back
- X-ray, neck (cervical spine)
- X-ray, shoulder
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How to Pay Less Nearby: Freestanding Centers, Insurer Leverage & Outpatient Savings
Inpatient MS-DRG vs. Outpatient CPT Care-Setting Savings
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Clinical Scope Note:Inpatient MS-DRG reflects a multi-day hospital admission (room, nursing, higher clinical acuity); outpatient CPT reflects the outpatient facility fee for clinically eligible low-acuity patients and excludes separate surgeon and anesthesia professional fees.
Prices are sourced from each hospital's federally-required public price file, most recently published October 2026. The BaseRate is a modeled fair-price estimate — not a bill or quote. How we build these numbers →