Fluid Around the Lung Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
A buildup of fluid in the space around a lung (pleural effusion), which can make breathing difficult. The stay often involves draining the fluid with a needle or small tube and testing it to find the cause.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $8,814Cash pay $7,051 - 2
Highpoint Health-Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas
Gallatin, TN
Gross charge $11,035Cash pay $3,597 - 3
Highpoint Health-Trousdale With Ascension Saint
Hartsville, TN
Gross charge $11,035Cash pay $3,597 - 4Gross charge $11,035Cash pay $3,597
- 5
Starr Regional Medical Center Athens
Athens, TN
Gross charge $22,803Cash pay $4,469 - 6
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $28,088Cash pay $17,218 - 7Gross charge $38,589Cash pay $11,307
- 8
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester
Winchester, TN
Gross charge $43,210Cash pay $10,673 - 9
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $53,553Cash pay $8,033 - 10
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $59,231Cash pay $13,031Medicare pays (avg) $11,939 - 11
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg, TN
Gross charge $62,438Cash pay $15,547 - 12
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $73,369Cash pay $11,005 - 13
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge — - 14
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 16
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 17
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,183 - 18
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge — - 19
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 20
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 21
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 22
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 25
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge — - 26
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —
- 29
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 30
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 31
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,895 - 32
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 33
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge — - 34
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 39
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 40
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 41
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 42
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 43
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge — - 44
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 46
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 47
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 48
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,231 - 49
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,451 - 50
Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 51
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Hendersonville, TN
Gross charge — - 52
Cumberland Medical Center
Crossville, TN
Gross charge — - 53
Fort Loudoun Medical Center
Lenoir City, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price fluid around the lung (Medicare DRG 186) anywhere from $8,814 to $73,369 — a $64,555 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Johnson City Medical Center in Johnson City. The state average sits at $35,267.
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 fluid around the lung 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 fluid around the lung 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. Tennessee hospitals missing from the list either don't perform fluid around the lung in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 186 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.