Chest Pain Cost in Massachusetts — 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
$57,184
gross charge · DRG 313
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$13,440 – $226,339
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, MA
Gross charge $13,440Cash pay $9,408Medicare pays (avg) $4,767 - 2
MelroseWakefield Hospital
Melrose, MA
Gross charge $13,440Cash pay $9,408Medicare pays (avg) $5,178 - 3
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge $13,440Cash pay $9,408 - 4
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge $20,970 - 5
Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals
Leominster, MA
Gross charge $23,897Medicare pays (avg) $5,468 - 6
Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital
Southbridge, MA
Gross charge $23,897 - 7
Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus
Worcester, MA
Gross charge $23,897Medicare pays (avg) $7,352 - 8
Mercy Medical Center
Springfield, MA
Gross charge $36,475Cash pay $20,061 - 9
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $41,872Cash pay $31,404Medicare pays (avg) $6,908 - 10
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River, MA
Gross charge $62,077Cash pay $5,656Medicare pays (avg) $4,924 - 11
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
Gross charge $186,465 - 12
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton, MA
Gross charge $226,339 - 13
Saint Anne's Hospital
Fall River, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,126 - 14
Holyoke Medical Center
Holyoke, MA
Gross charge — - 15
Berkshire Medical Center (Acute Care)
Pittsfield, MA
Gross charge — - 16
Heywood Hospital
Gardner, MA
Gross charge — - 17
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,970 - 18
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain, MA
Gross charge — - 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 —Medicare pays (avg) $4,507 - 23
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham, MA
Gross charge — - 24
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 25
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 26
Winchester Hospital
Winchester, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,063 - 27
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Milton, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,831 - 28
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
Burlington, MA
Gross charge — - 29
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington, MA
Gross charge — - 30
Falmouth Hospital
Falmouth, MA
Gross charge —
12 Massachusetts hospitals publish gross charges for chest pain (DRG 313). Prices range from $13,440 to $226,339 — roughly 17×. The cheapest is Lowell General Hospital in Lowell; the most expensive is Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. The state average sits at $57,184.
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 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. Massachusetts 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.