Cardiac Catheterization Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for a heart problem other than a heart attack that includes cardiac catheterization, where doctors thread a thin tube into the heart's arteries to look for blockages. Patients in this group have other serious conditions that require extra care during the stay.
State average
$61,249
gross charge · DRG 286
Hospitals
7
with published pricing
Price range
$39,656 – $76,273
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $39,656Cash pay $9,914 - 2
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $49,922Cash pay $21,307Medicare pays (avg) $13,678 - 3
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $60,630 - 4
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $60,630 - 5
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $65,356Cash pay $12,418Medicare pays (avg) $12,185 - 6
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $76,273Cash pay $26,696Medicare pays (avg) $12,934 - 7
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $76,273Cash pay $26,696 - 8
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,763 - 9
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,317 - 10
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 11
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,811 - 12
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 13
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $18,189Medicare pays (avg) $12,330 - 15
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 17
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,948 - 19
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 20
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $15,330 - 21
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,425 - 23
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,555Medicare pays (avg) $12,889 - 26
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 27
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 28
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,960 - 30
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,924 - 31
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 33
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 34
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,774 - 35
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price cardiac catheterization (Medicare DRG 286) anywhere from $39,656 to $76,273 — a $36,617 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System in Bessemer; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $61,249.
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 cardiac catheterization 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 cardiac catheterization 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 cardiac catheterization in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 286 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.