DRG 280 · Cardiovascular

Heart Attack Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals

Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with major complications — discharged alive.

State average
$41,357
gross charge · DRG 280
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$9,156 – $71,576
low to high
Lowest $9,156 Highest $71,576

Tennessee hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 280) anywhere from $9,156 to $71,576 — a $62,419 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 $41,357.

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 Tennessee, 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. Tennessee 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Unity Medical Center

    Manchester, TN

    Gross charge $9,156
    Cash pay $7,325
  2. 2

    Highpoint Health-Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas

    Gallatin, TN

    32 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $23,224
    Cash pay $7,571
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,660
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    Gross charge $23,224
    Cash pay $7,571
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    Gross charge $23,224
    Cash pay $7,571
  5. 5

    Cookeville Regional Medical Center

    Cookeville, TN

    96 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $32,477
    Cash pay $19,908
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,746
  6. 6

    Sycamore Shoals Hospital

    Elizabethton, TN

    Gross charge $42,250
    Cash pay $6,337
  7. 7

    Methodist Hospitals of Memphis

    Memphis, TN

    155 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $44,697
    Cash pay $9,833
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,701
  8. 8

    Starr Regional Medical Center Athens

    Athens, TN

    Gross charge $45,962
    Cash pay $9,009
  9. 9
    Gross charge $51,811
    Cash pay $15,181
  10. 10

    Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room

    Bristol, TN

    57 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $53,353
    Cash pay $8,003
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,895
  11. 11

    Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester

    Winchester, TN

    17 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $57,865
    Cash pay $14,293
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,970
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    Gross charge $58,825
    Cash pay $14,647
  13. 13

    Johnson City Medical Center

    Johnson City, TN

    47 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $71,576
    Cash pay $10,736
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,670
  14. 14

    Jackson-Madison County General Hospital

    Jackson, TN

    323 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,498
  15. 15

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County

    Huntingdon, TN

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    Roane Medical Center

    Harriman, TN

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    LaFollette Medical Center

    La Follette, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

    Memphis, TN

    53 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,775
  19. 19

    Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford

    Murfreesboro, TN

    63 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,642
  20. 20

    Jefferson Memorial Hospital

    Jefferson City, TN

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    Volunteer Community Hospital

    Martin, TN

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    Dyersburg Regional Medical Center

    Dyersburg, TN

    33 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,982
  24. 24

    Maury Regional Medical Center (Acute Care — Columbia)

    Columbia, TN

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,850
  25. 25

    Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West

    Nashville, TN

    98 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,183
  26. 26

    North Knoxville Medical Center

    Powell, TN

    76 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,391
  27. 27

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City

    Union City, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton

    Covington, TN

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    Dekalb Community Hospital

    Smithville, TN

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    Ascension Saint Thomas River Park

    Mcminnville, TN

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  32. 32

    Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Chattanooga, TN

    40 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,307
  33. 33

    TriStar Centennial Medical Center

    Nashville, TN

    66 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,598
  34. 34

    Parkwest Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

    57 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,278
  35. 35

    Affiliate of Vitruvian Health

    Cleveland, TN

    79 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,690
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    Erlanger Medical Center

    Chattanooga, TN

    48 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,299
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    Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge

    Oak Ridge, TN

    44 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,064
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  48. 48

    Leconte Medical Center

    Sevierville, TN

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  49. 49

    Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,863
  50. 50

    Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center

    Hendersonville, TN

    30 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,792
  51. 51

    Memorial Healthcare System, Inc

    Chattanooga, TN

    125 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,257
  52. 52

    University Health System, Inc

    Knoxville, TN

    46 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,088

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