Heart Attack Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with major complications — discharged alive.
State average
$35,001
gross charge · DRG 280
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$4,443 – $75,502
low to high
Data notes for Alabama
- The lowest published charge ($4,443 at Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)) 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
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $4,443 - 2
North Baldwin Infirmary
Bay Minette, AL
Gross charge $10,949Cash pay $8,344 - 3
D W Mcmillan Memorial Hospital
Brewton, AL
Gross charge $11,316Cash pay $6,790 - 4
Atmore Community Hospital
Atmore, AL
Gross charge $11,316Cash pay $6,790 - 5
Bibb Medical Center
Centreville, AL
Gross charge $17,134 - 6
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $17,457Cash pay $15,711 - 7
Clay County Hospital
Ashland, AL
Gross charge $22,571 - 8
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $27,275Cash pay $15,790 - 9
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $44,624Cash pay $11,156Medicare pays (avg) $8,811 - 10
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $58,531 - 11
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $58,531 - 12
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $65,180Cash pay $22,813Medicare pays (avg) $9,573 - 13
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $65,180Cash pay $22,813 - 14
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $75,502Cash pay $14,345Medicare pays (avg) $8,304 - 15
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,522 - 16
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,373 - 17
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,240 - 18
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,928 - 19
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,553 - 20
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,142 - 21
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $13,669Medicare pays (avg) $8,568 - 22
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 23
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,906 - 24
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,688 - 26
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 27
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,552 - 28
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,634 - 30
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 33
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 34
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,014 - 36
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,715 - 37
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 38
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,928 - 39
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,101 - 40
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,280 - 41
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,355
Alabama hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 280) anywhere from $4,443 to $75,502 — a $71,058 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care) in Mobile; the most expensive is Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. The state average sits at $35,001.
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 heart attack at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling heart attack 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 heart attack in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 280 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.