DRG 472 · Musculoskeletal

Cervical Spinal Fusion Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery that joins (fuses) bones in the neck portion of the spine to relieve pressure on nerves or stabilize the spine. The stay covers the operation, pain control, and early recovery, including help getting mobile.

State average
$87,934
gross charge · DRG 472
Hospitals
9
with published pricing
Price range
$16,044 – $120,432
low to high
Lowest $16,044 Highest $120,432

Alabama hospitals price cervical spinal fusion (Medicare DRG 472) anywhere from $16,044 to $120,432 — a $104,389 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 $87,934.

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 cervical spinal fusion at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling cervical spinal fusion in Alabama, 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. Alabama hospitals missing from the list either don't perform cervical spinal fusion in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 472 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

    Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Mobile, AL

    19 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $16,044
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,499
  2. 2

    North Alabama Medical Center

    Florence, AL

    Gross charge $64,812
    Cash pay $22,684
  3. 3

    North Alabama Shoals Hospital

    Muscle Shoals, AL

    Gross charge $64,812
    Cash pay $22,684
  4. 4

    Jackson Hospital

    Montgomery, AL

    Gross charge $79,380
    Cash pay $15,082
  5. 5
    Gross charge $84,631
    Cash pay $21,158
  6. 6

    Helen Keller Hospital

    Sheffield, AL

    Gross charge $120,432
  7. 7

    Athens Limestone Hospital

    Athens, AL

    Gross charge $120,432
  8. 8

    Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus

    Decatur, AL

    Gross charge $120,432
  9. 9

    Red Bay Hospital

    Red Bay, AL

    Gross charge $120,432
  10. 10

    Southeast Health Medical Center

    Dothan, AL

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  11. 11

    St. Vincent's East

    Birmingham, AL

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  12. 12
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  13. 13

    Baptist Medical Center South

    Montgomery, AL

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  14. 14

    East Alabama Medical Center

    Opelika, AL

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  15. 15

    Cullman Regional Medical Center

    Cullman, AL

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  16. 16

    Gadsden Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

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  17. 17

    Fayette Medical Center

    Fayette, AL

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  18. 18

    Riverview Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $23,594
  19. 19

    Medical Center Enterprise

    Enterprise, AL

    Gross charge
  20. 20

    Flowers Hospital

    Dothan, AL

    23 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,255
  21. 21

    UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham

    Birmingham, AL

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,299
  22. 22

    Russell Medical

    Alexander City, AL

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  23. 23

    Baldwin Health

    Foley, AL

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  24. 24

    USA Health University Hospital

    Mobile, AL

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  25. 25

    USA Health Providence Hospital

    Mobile, AL

    22 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,495
  26. 26

    DCH Regional Medical Center

    Tuscaloosa, AL

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  27. 27

    Hale County Hospital

    Greensboro, AL

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  28. 28

    Baptist Health Princeton Hospital

    Birmingham, AL

    Gross charge
  29. 29

    Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Birmingham, AL

    16 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,695
  30. 30

    Prattville Baptist Hospital

    Prattville, AL

    Gross charge
  31. 31

    Whitfield Regional Hospital

    Demopolis, AL

    Gross charge
  32. 32

    UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair

    Pell City, AL

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  33. 33
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  34. 34

    Baptist Medical Center East

    Montgomery, AL

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  35. 35

    Russellville Hospital

    Russellville, AL

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  36. 36
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  37. 37
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  38. 38

    Huntsville Hospital

    Huntsville, AL

    40 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,976
  39. 39

    Regional Medical Center

    Anniston, AL

    Gross charge

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