Cheapest hospitals in Louisville, KY without insurance
Of 18 hospitals in the Louisville, KY area we can compare, Norton Clark Hospital (Jeffersonville) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 61% below the Indiana median across 324 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.
Collected Nov 11, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures
| Hospital | Typical price vs state | Below median | Above median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Norton Clark Hospital Jeffersonville | 61% below | 321 of 324 | 3 of 324 |
| 2. University of Louisville Hospital Louisville | 50% below | 293 of 313 | 20 of 313 |
| 3. Norton Brownsboro Hospital Louisville | 44% below | 322 of 364 | 27 of 364 |
| 4. Norton Children's Hospital Louisville | 44% below | 322 of 364 | 27 of 364 |
| 5. Norton Hospital Louisville | 44% below | 322 of 364 | 27 of 364 |
| 6. Norton West Louisville Hospital Louisville | 44% below | 322 of 364 | 27 of 364 |
| 7. Norton Women's and Kosair Children's Hospital Louisville | 44% below | 322 of 364 | 27 of 364 |
| 8. Saints Mary & Elizabeth Hospital Louisville | 33% below | 263 of 305 | 38 of 305 |
| 9. UofL Health -Shelbyville Shelbyville | 21% below | 220 of 295 | 67 of 295 |
| 10. UofL Health-Louisville – South Hospital Shepherdville | 16% below | 152 of 248 | 86 of 248 |
| 11. UofL Health - Jewish Hospital and Mary & Elizabeth Hospital Louisville | 11% below | 189 of 299 | 104 of 299 |
| 12. CHI Saint Joseph Flaget Memorial Hospital Bardstown | 2% above | 171 of 368 | 195 of 368 |
| 13. Our Lady of Peace Louisville | 19% above | 32 of 92 | 59 of 92 |
| 14. St. Vincent Salem Hospital Salem | 24% above | 104 of 322 | 211 of 322 |
| 15. Harrison County Hospital Corydon | 49% above | 63 of 303 | 239 of 303 |
| 16. Baptist Health LaGrange La Grange | 142% above | 14 of 358 | 332 of 358 |
| 17. Baptist Health Louisville Louisville | 142% above | 14 of 358 | 332 of 358 |
| 18. Baptist Health Floyd New Albany | 172% above | 21 of 357 | 335 of 357 |
Hospital The hospital that published the price, its city and the line exactly as written in its price file.
Typical price The median of this hospital's cash prices divided by the state median for the same codes: below means cheaper than a typical hospital in the state.
Below median For how many of the compared procedures this hospital is cheaper than the state median.
Above median For how many of the compared procedures this hospital is more expensive than the state median.
Procedure costs in the Louisville, KY area
- MRI cost
- CT scan cost
- X-ray cost
- Ultrasound cost
- ER visit cost
- Blood test cost
- STD test cost
- Doctor visit cost
- Physical therapy cost
- Mammogram cost
- Heart test cost
- Therapy session cost
- Sleep study cost
- Flu shot cost
- Vaccine cost
- Childhood vaccine cost
- Cortisone shot cost
- Coronary calcium score cost
- Nuclear stress test cost
- Strep test cost
- Earwax removal cost
- Bone density scan cost
- Cholesterol test (lipid panel) cost
- Complete blood count (CBC) cost
- Cardioversion cost
How the ranking works
- For every procedure, we take the hospital's lowest outpatient cash price and compare it with the median of all hospitals in the same state that publish a cash price for the same code (only codes with at least three hospitals in the state).
- "Typical price" is the middle of those comparisons: half of the hospital's procedures are cheaper than that, half are dearer. One expensive surgery does not outweigh a hundred cheap lab tests, and the other way round.
- Hospitals with fewer than 30 comparable procedures are left out: with a handful of codes the place would be decided by chance.
- Prices far below every other hospital are worth a phone call: some price files list only part of a service (for example the facility fee without the doctor's fee), or a discount that depends on income.
- A low rank does not mean every price is low. Open the hospital to see the procedure you need, then ask its billing office for a Good Faith Estimate in writing.