Heart Attack Cost in Massachusetts — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with major complications — discharged alive.
State average
$76,080
gross charge · DRG 280
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$21,060 – $152,641
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, MA
Gross charge $21,060Cash pay $14,742Medicare pays (avg) $12,140 - 2
MelroseWakefield Hospital
Melrose, MA
Gross charge $21,060Cash pay $14,742Medicare pays (avg) $10,953 - 3
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge $21,060Cash pay $14,742Medicare pays (avg) $16,178 - 4
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton, MA
Gross charge $46,711Cash pay $35,033 - 5
Mercy Medical Center
Springfield, MA
Gross charge $54,286Cash pay $29,857Medicare pays (avg) $11,390 - 6
Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals
Leominster, MA
Gross charge $67,887Medicare pays (avg) $11,680 - 7
Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital
Southbridge, MA
Gross charge $67,887Medicare pays (avg) $11,548 - 8
Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus
Worcester, MA
Gross charge $67,887Medicare pays (avg) $18,776 - 9
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
Gross charge $75,108Medicare pays (avg) $12,603 - 10
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge $92,540Medicare pays (avg) $25,468 - 11
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $94,494Cash pay $70,871Medicare pays (avg) $17,693 - 12
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River, MA
Gross charge $129,860Cash pay $2,884Medicare pays (avg) $11,818 - 13
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $152,641Medicare pays (avg) $17,318 - 14
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain, MA
Gross charge $152,641Medicare pays (avg) $13,737 - 15
Saint Anne's Hospital
Fall River, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,528 - 16
Holyoke Medical Center
Holyoke, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,611 - 17
Berkshire Medical Center (Acute Care)
Pittsfield, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $15,811 - 18
Heywood Hospital
Gardner, MA
Gross charge — - 19
Athol Hospital
Athol, MA
Gross charge — - 20
Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,825 - 21
Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Greenfield, MA
Gross charge — - 22
Anna Jaques Hospital
Newburyport, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,292 - 23
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,464 - 24
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $18,320 - 25
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 26
Winchester Hospital
Winchester, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,883 - 27
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Milton, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,937 - 28
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
Burlington, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,253 - 29
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington, MA
Gross charge — - 30
Falmouth Hospital
Falmouth, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,516
14 Massachusetts hospitals publish gross charges for heart attack (DRG 280). Prices range from $21,060 to $152,641 — roughly 7×. The cheapest is Lowell General Hospital in Lowell; the most expensive is Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The state average sits at $76,080.
The number you see is each hospital's published "list price" — the gross charge for the facility component of heart attack. 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 Massachusetts, 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. Massachusetts 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.