Hospital · CCN 180139

Kentucky River Medical Center

540 Jett Drive, Jackson, KY 41339 · Breathitt County
Part of Quorum Health Corporation · 49 beds · 5
Small town core: primary flow within an urban cluster of 2,500 to 9,999

3 admission types 8 outpatient services

Billed per dollar paid, all admissions

5.89×

$8.9M billed against $1.5M paid across 120 Medicare discharges; the national figure is 5.03×.

4.8%

of adults in Breathitt County have medical debt in collections

6.7%

uninsured in the county · state 6.6%

$40K

median household income

5.9×

billed ÷ paid, inpatient, summed over the county's hospitals in the Medicare file (1 in the inpatient or outpatient file)ⓘ

01 · Admissions

What it billed Medicare, by admission type

Average charge submitted and average total payment per discharge, 2024. Rows under 11 discharges are suppressed by CMS. The last column is the hospital's ratio against its state's for the same admission.

DRG

Admission

Discharges

Charge

Paid

Billed ÷ paid

871

Septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc

$79,144

$13,825

5.7× st 4.3×

193

Simple pneumonia and pleurisy with mcc

$64,199

$9,801

6.6× st 4.4×

689

Kidney and urinary tract infections with mcc

$54,288

$8,679

6.3× st 4.3×

02 · Outpatient

Outpatient services

Comprehensive APCs, Medicare's outpatient payment groups: submitted charge against what Medicare allowed, per service.

APC

Service

Services

Charge

Allowed

Billed ÷ allowed

5491

Level 1 Intraocular Procedures

$21,544

$2,094

10.3×

8011

Comprehensive Observation Services

$23,974

$2,459

9.7×

5072

Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5073

Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage

—

5091

Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures

—

5183

Level 3 Vascular Procedures

—

5313

Level 3 Lower GI Procedures

—

5373

Level 3 Urology and Related Services

—

Sources for this hospital

the files read, as fetched — not our copy of them

Medicare Inpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_INP_RY26_P03_V10_DY24_PrvSvc.CSV · 38.0M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 2ab6da15be4c… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
Medicare Outpatient Hospitals - by Provider and Service · CMS · 2024
MUP_OUT_RY26_P04_V10_DY24_Prov_Svc.csv · 28.1M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 f293918edbf6… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)
AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems — hospital linkage file · AHRQ · 2023
chsp-hospital-linkage-2023.csv · 1.5M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 a86146f10c8d… · publisher's page · public; cite AHRQ Compendium of U.S. Health Systems
2020 ZCTA to County relationship file · US Census Bureau · 2020
tab20_zcta520_county20_natl.txt · 6.8M bytes · fetched 2026-08-21 · sha256 3ed41278d637… · publisher's page · public domain (US federal)

Every figure on this page is computed from these files by pipeline/prices/; the same rows are in the API.

Source rows for this hospital as JSON: inpatient · outpatient. CMS, Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient Hospitals by Provider and Service, 2024.