Back & Neck Surgery (Non-Fusion) Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
An operation on the back or neck that does not fuse bones of the spine together, such as removing part of a damaged disc or relieving pressure on a nerve. Patients are usually up and walking soon after surgery, with a short recovery stay.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $16,259Cash pay $13,007 - 2
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $33,374Cash pay $20,458 - 3
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $55,276Cash pay $8,291 - 4
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $77,004Cash pay $11,551 - 5
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $95,477Cash pay $21,005 - 6
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge — - 7
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 8
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 9
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 10
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge — - 11
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge — - 12
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 13
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 14
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
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Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 18
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge — - 19
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 20
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 21Gross charge —
- 22
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 23
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 24
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 25
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 26
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 28
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 29
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 30
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 31
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 32
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 33
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 34
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 39
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 41
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 42
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 43
Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 44
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Hendersonville, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Cumberland Medical Center
Crossville, TN
Gross charge — - 46
Fort Loudoun Medical Center
Lenoir City, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price back & neck surgery (non-fusion) (Medicare DRG 520) anywhere from $16,259 to $95,477 — a $79,218 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Methodist Hospitals of Memphis in Memphis. The state average sits at $55,478.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 back & neck surgery (non-fusion) at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in Tennessee, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Tennessee hospitals missing from the list either don't perform back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 520 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.