Bowel Obstruction Cost in Massachusetts — Compare All Hospitals
A blockage in the intestines that stops food and fluid from passing through. Treatment usually involves resting the bowel with intravenous fluids, and sometimes a tube through the nose to relieve pressure, while the blockage clears.
State average
$17,212
gross charge · DRG 390
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$10,666 – $23,543
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, MA
Gross charge $10,666Cash pay $7,466Medicare pays (avg) $3,443 - 2
MelroseWakefield Hospital
Melrose, MA
Gross charge $10,666Cash pay $7,466Medicare pays (avg) $3,329 - 3
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge $10,666Cash pay $7,466 - 4
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge $12,369 - 5
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton, MA
Gross charge $14,942Cash pay $11,207Medicare pays (avg) $2,200 - 6
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
Gross charge $15,485Cash pay $11,614Medicare pays (avg) $2,984 - 7
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River, MA
Gross charge $17,360Cash pay $8,446Medicare pays (avg) $3,253 - 8
Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals
Leominster, MA
Gross charge $19,330 - 9
Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital
Southbridge, MA
Gross charge $19,330 - 10
Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus
Worcester, MA
Gross charge $19,330Medicare pays (avg) $5,432 - 11
Mercy Medical Center
Springfield, MA
Gross charge $21,094Cash pay $11,602 - 12
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $22,642Cash pay $16,982Medicare pays (avg) $4,515 - 13
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $23,543Cash pay $17,658Medicare pays (avg) $4,940 - 14
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain, MA
Gross charge $23,543Cash pay $17,658 - 15
Saint Anne's Hospital
Fall River, MA
Gross charge — - 16
Holyoke Medical Center
Holyoke, MA
Gross charge — - 17
Berkshire Medical Center (Acute Care)
Pittsfield, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,220 - 18
Heywood Hospital
Gardner, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,061 - 19
Athol Hospital
Athol, MA
Gross charge — - 20
Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge — - 21
Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Greenfield, MA
Gross charge — - 22
Anna Jaques Hospital
Newburyport, MA
Gross charge — - 23
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham, MA
Gross charge — - 24
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,999 - 25
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 26
Winchester Hospital
Winchester, MA
Gross charge — - 27
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Milton, MA
Gross charge — - 28
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
Burlington, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,722 - 29
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington, MA
Gross charge — - 30
Falmouth Hospital
Falmouth, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,195
14 Massachusetts hospitals publish gross charges for bowel obstruction (DRG 390). Prices range from $10,666 to $23,543 — roughly $12,878 apart. The cheapest is Lowell General Hospital in Lowell; the most expensive is Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The state average sits at $17,212.
These numbers are list prices — what the hospital bills before any insurance adjustment. 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 bowel obstruction 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 bowel obstruction 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. Massachusetts hospitals missing from the list either don't perform bowel obstruction in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 390 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.