Appendectomy Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery to remove the appendix, usually because of appendicitis, an inflamed or ruptured appendix. The stay includes the operation, antibiotics, and recovery.
State average
$52,179
gross charge · DRG 397
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$15,097 – $82,327
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $15,097 - 2
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $36,348Cash pay $22,958 - 3
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $38,157Cash pay $9,539 - 4
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $58,818Cash pay $11,175 - 5
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $82,327 - 6
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $82,327 - 7
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 8
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 9
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 10
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 11
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 12
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $20,280 - 13
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 15
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 17
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 18
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 20
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 21
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 23
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 24
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 25
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge — - 27
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 28
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 31
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 32
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price appendectomy (Medicare DRG 397) anywhere from $15,097 to $82,327 — a $67,230 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care) in Mobile; the most expensive is Red Bay Hospital in Red Bay. The state average sits at $52,179.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 appendectomy 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 appendectomy 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. Alabama hospitals missing from the list either don't perform appendectomy in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 397 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.