Digestive System Surgery Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
An operation on the stomach, intestines, or other digestive organs that doesn't fall into a more specific surgical category. The stay includes surgery and a recovery period with a gradual return to eating.
State average
$101,463
gross charge · DRG 356
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$17,730 – $161,926
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $17,730 - 2
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $50,872Cash pay $12,718 - 3
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $87,092Cash pay $16,548 - 4
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $89,527Cash pay $41,065 - 5
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $121,317Cash pay $42,461 - 6
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $121,317Cash pay $42,461 - 7
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $161,926 - 8
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $161,926 - 9
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 10
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 11
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 12
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 13
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 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 — - 19
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 20
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 21
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 23
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 26
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 27
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 28
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,977 - 29
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 33
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 34
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price digestive system surgery (Medicare DRG 356) anywhere from $17,730 to $161,926 — a $144,196 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 $101,463.
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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery 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 digestive system surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 356 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.