Chest Pain Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay to evaluate chest pain and rule out a heart attack or other serious cause. It typically involves heart monitoring, repeated blood tests, and sometimes a stress test or heart imaging.
State average
$18,202
gross charge · DRG 313
Hospitals
15
with published pricing
Price range
$3,106 – $41,725
low to high
Data notes for Alabama
- The lowest published charge ($3,106 at Clay County Hospital) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Clay County Hospital
Ashland, AL
Gross charge $3,106 - 2
Monroe County Hospital
Monroeville, AL
Gross charge $3,722Cash pay $1,489 - 3
D W Mcmillan Memorial Hospital
Brewton, AL
Gross charge $5,650Cash pay $3,390 - 4
Atmore Community Hospital
Atmore, AL
Gross charge $5,650Cash pay $3,390 - 5
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $6,096 - 6
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $7,665Cash pay $6,899 - 7
Bibb Medical Center
Centreville, AL
Gross charge $9,817 - 8
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $23,107 - 9
Athens Limestone Hospital
Athens, AL
Gross charge $23,107 - 10
Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus
Decatur, AL
Gross charge $23,107 - 11
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $23,107 - 12
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $25,795Cash pay $6,449 - 13
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $29,655Cash pay $5,635Medicare pays (avg) $3,927 - 14
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $41,725Cash pay $14,604Medicare pays (avg) $3,856 - 15
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $41,725Cash pay $14,604 - 16
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,260 - 17
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,784 - 18
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital Authority
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 20
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 21
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,295 - 22
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,215 - 23
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,334Medicare pays (avg) $3,411 - 25
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 27
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,153 - 28
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 30
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 31
USA Health Providence Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,286 - 32
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,652 - 33
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 34
Baptist Health Princeton Hospital
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,695 - 36
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 37
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 38
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge — - 39
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 40
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 41
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 42
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 43
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 44
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,281 - 45
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,529
Alabama hospitals price chest pain (Medicare DRG 313) anywhere from $3,106 to $41,725 — a $38,620 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Clay County Hospital in Ashland; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $18,202.
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 chest pain 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 chest pain 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 chest pain in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 313 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.