Healthy Newborn Cost in Arkansas — Compare All Hospitals
A healthy baby's routine hospital stay after birth, including newborn exams, screening tests, and feeding support before going home.
State average
$6,617
gross charge · DRG 795
Hospitals
7
with published pricing
Price range
$3,379 – $10,707
low to high
Data notes for Arkansas
- The lowest published charge ($3,379 at Baxter Health) 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
Baxter Health
Mountain Home, AR
Gross charge $3,379Cash pay $2,365 - 2Gross charge $3,447Cash pay $2,068
- 3
Forrest City Medical Center
Forrest City, AR
Gross charge $4,129Cash pay $2,477 - 4
National Park Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge $6,858Cash pay $2,057 - 5
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc
Conway, AR
Gross charge $7,426Cash pay $1,931 - 6
Saline Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Benton, AR
Gross charge $10,376Cash pay $3,113 - 7
St Marys Regional Medical Center
Russellville, AR
Gross charge $10,707Cash pay $3,212 - 8
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 9
Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge — - 10
Ouachita County Medical Center
Camden, AR
Gross charge — - 11
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Jonesboro, AR
Gross charge — - 12
White River Medical Center - White River Health
Batesville, AR
Gross charge — - 13
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Llc
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 14
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden
West Memphis, AR
Gross charge — - 15
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Walnut Ridge, AR
Gross charge — - 16
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton
Morrilton, AR
Gross charge — - 17
Unity Health-White County Medical Center
Searcy, AR
Gross charge — - 18
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 19
Great River Medical Center
Blytheville, AR
Gross charge — - 20
Jefferson Regional
Pine Bluff, AR
Gross charge — - 21
Unity Health - Newport
Newport, AR
Gross charge —
Arkansas hospitals price healthy newborn (Medicare DRG 795) anywhere from $3,379 to $10,707 — a $7,328 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Baxter Health in Mountain Home; the most expensive is St Marys Regional Medical Center in Russellville. The state average sits at $6,617.
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 healthy newborn at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
For healthy newborn in Arkansas, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Arkansas hospitals missing from the list either don't perform healthy newborn in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 795 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.