DRG 788 · Maternity

C-Section Cost in Washington — Compare All Hospitals

Delivery of a baby through a surgical incision in the abdomen. The stay includes the operation and a few days of recovery care for mother and baby.

State average
$30,851
gross charge · DRG 788
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$24,841 – $40,669
low to high
Lowest $24,841 Highest $40,669

6 Washington hospitals list a gross charge for c-section under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $24,841 to $40,669. The cheapest is Island Hospital in Anacortes; the most expensive is Othello Community Hospital in Othello. The state average sits at $30,851.

What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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 c-section at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

For c-section in Washington, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.

Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Washington hospitals missing from the list either don't perform c-section in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 788 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Island Hospital

    Anacortes, WA

    Gross charge $24,841
  2. 2
    Gross charge $27,691
  3. 3

    Jefferson Healthcare

    Port Townsend, WA

    Gross charge $28,974
    Cash pay $23,179
  4. 4

    Trios Health Southridge Hospital

    Kennewick, WA

    Gross charge $30,079
    Cash pay $12,032
  5. 5

    Valley Medical Center

    Renton, WA

    Gross charge $32,852
    Cash pay $22,996
  6. 6
    Gross charge $40,669
    Cash pay $30,502
  7. 7

    Providence St. Mary Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Walla Walla, WA

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    Virginia Mason Medical Center

    Seattle, WA

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  9. 9

    Providence Regional Medical Center Everett

    Everett, WA

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    Providence Centralia Hospital (Acute Care)

    Centralia, WA

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    St. Clare Hospital

    Lakewood, WA

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    Providence St. Peter Hospital

    Olympia, WA

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  14. 14

    Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill

    Seattle, WA

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  15. 15

    Swedish Edmonds Campus

    Edmonds, WA

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    Swedish Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Seattle, WA

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    MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital

    Yakima, WA

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    St. Michael Medical Center

    Silverdale, WA

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    Deaconess Medical Center

    Spokane, WA

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    Kadlec Regional Medical Center

    Richland, WA

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  22. 22

    Providence Holy Family Hospital

    Spokane, WA

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    MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (Acute Care)

    Puyallup, WA

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  24. 24

    St. Joseph Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Tacoma, WA

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    Multicare Valley Hospital

    Spokane Valley, WA

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    MultiCare Allenmore Hospital

    Tacoma, WA

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    MultiCare Capital Medical Center

    Olympia, WA

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    St. Francis Hospital

    Federal Way, WA

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    St. Anthony Hospital

    Gig Harbor, WA

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  30. 30

    Swedish Issaquah Campus

    Issaquah, WA

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    MultiCare Covington Medical Center

    Covington, WA

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    Prosser Memorial Hospital

    Prosser, WA

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    Providence Mount Carmel Hospital

    Colville, WA

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  35. 35

    St. Elizabeth Hospital

    Enumclaw, WA

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  36. 36

    PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center

    Longview, WA

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  37. 37

    PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center

    Vancouver, WA

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  38. 38

    Overlake Hospital Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Bellevue, WA

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    Harborview Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Seattle, WA

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