Connective Tissue Disorders Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
Diseases of the body's connective tissue, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, when a flare-up needs hospital care. The stay usually involves medicines to calm inflammation and monitoring of affected joints and organs.
State average
$33,101
gross charge · DRG 547
Hospitals
5
with published pricing
Price range
$12,661 – $38,211
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $12,661 - 2
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $38,211 - 3
Athens Limestone Hospital
Athens, AL
Gross charge $38,211 - 4
Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus
Decatur, AL
Gross charge $38,211 - 5
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $38,211 - 6
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 7
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 8
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital Authority
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 9
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 10
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 11
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 12
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 13
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,594 - 15
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 17
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 20
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 21
USA Health Providence Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 22
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 23
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Baptist Health Princeton Hospital
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 27
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 28
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 32
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 33
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 34
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price connective tissue disorders (Medicare DRG 547) anywhere from $12,661 to $38,211 — a $25,550 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 $33,101.
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 connective tissue disorders at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling connective tissue disorders 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 connective tissue disorders in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 547 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.