Heart Attack Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) without major complications — discharged alive.
State average
$23,851
gross charge · DRG 282
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$3,708 – $56,600
low to high
Data notes for Alabama
- The lowest published charge ($3,708 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 $3,708 - 2
D W Mcmillan Memorial Hospital
Brewton, AL
Gross charge $5,614Cash pay $3,368 - 3
Atmore Community Hospital
Atmore, AL
Gross charge $5,614Cash pay $3,368 - 4
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $9,149Cash pay $8,234 - 5
Bibb Medical Center
Centreville, AL
Gross charge $9,909 - 6
Clay County Hospital
Ashland, AL
Gross charge $16,415 - 7
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $20,438Cash pay $5,109 - 8
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $28,144 - 9
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $28,144 - 10
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $30,601Cash pay $7,806 - 11
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $39,134Cash pay $7,435 - 12
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $56,600Cash pay $19,810 - 13
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $56,600Cash pay $19,810 - 14
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,674 - 15
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 17
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,802 - 20
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,427 - 21
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $2,966 - 23
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 25
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 26
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 27
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 28
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 32
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 33
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 34
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,791 - 35
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 36
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 37
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 38
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 39
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 40
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 282) anywhere from $3,708 to $56,600 — a $52,892 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care) in Mobile; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $23,851.
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 282 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.