Heart Attack Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) without major complications — discharged alive.
State average
$34,761
gross charge · DRG 282
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$4,045 – $57,502
low to high
Data notes for Tennessee
- The lowest published charge ($4,045 at Unity Medical Center) 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
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $4,045Cash pay $3,236 - 2
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $21,758Cash pay $3,264Medicare pays (avg) $4,426 - 3
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg, TN
Gross charge $21,821Cash pay $5,434 - 4
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $29,890Cash pay $18,323 - 5
Sycamore Shoals Hospital
Elizabethton, TN
Gross charge $31,187Cash pay $4,678 - 6
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $39,554Cash pay $5,933Medicare pays (avg) $3,805 - 7
Starr Regional Medical Center Athens
Athens, TN
Gross charge $40,009Cash pay $7,842 - 8
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester
Winchester, TN
Gross charge $50,259Cash pay $12,414 - 9Gross charge $51,586Cash pay $15,115
- 10
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $57,502Cash pay $12,650 - 11
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,932 - 12
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 13
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 14
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge — - 16
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,575 - 17
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 18
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 19
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 20
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 21Gross charge —
- 22
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 23
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,013 - 24
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 25
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 26Gross charge —
- 27
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 28
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 29
Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 30
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,710 - 31
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,204 - 32
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge — - 33
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 34
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 39
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 41
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 42
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge — - 43
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 44
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 46
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 47
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Hendersonville, TN
Gross charge — - 48
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $2,964 - 49
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 282) anywhere from $4,045 to $57,502 — a $53,457 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Methodist Hospitals of Memphis in Memphis. The state average sits at $34,761.
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 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.