Heart Attack Cost in Georgia — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with complications — discharged alive.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for heart attack. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Emergency department evaluation and cardiac workup
- Inpatient cardiac monitoring (often in a coronary care unit)
- Diagnostic catheterization and any required stenting
- Inpatient medications and routine labs during admission
Usually billed separately
- Cardiologist, ED physician, and any interventional specialist professional fees
- Ambulance transport
- Outpatient cardiac rehab and follow-up visits after discharge
- Long-term medications (antiplatelets, statins, beta-blockers)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does heart attack best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Heart-Attack Mortality (30-day)
The single most important quality signal — how often patients survive 30 days after a heart attack at this hospital.
Time to Fibrinolysis (STEMI)
For ST-elevation heart attacks treated with clot-busting drugs, every minute counts. Tracks median minutes from arrival to treatment.
Heart-Attack Readmissions
Reflects discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and outpatient cardiology handoff.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For heart attack, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- Heart-attack admissions aren't shoppable in real time — in an emergency, the hospital that can get a patient to a cath lab fastest is typically the right call regardless of price.
- This page is more useful after discharge to evaluate where care was delivered, or ahead of time for chronic-condition planning.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- During an active heart attack: skip this list and call 911 — go to the nearest hospital with a cardiac cath lab.
- After discharge: was every physician who treated me in-network? (ED, cardiologist, interventionalist, hospitalist often bill separately.)
- What outpatient cardiac rehab program is recommended? Is it covered?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Bacon County Hospital
Alma, GA
Gross charge $6,072Cash pay $4,858 - 2
Jasper Memorial Hospital
Monticello, GA
Gross charge $13,509Cash pay $10,807 - 3
Southeast Georgia Health System-Brunswick Campus
Brunswick, GA
Gross charge $25,294Medicare pays (avg) $7,062 - 4
Southeast Georgia Health System-Camden Campus
Saint Marys, GA
Gross charge $25,294 - 5
Coffee Regional Medical Center, Inc
Douglas, GA
Gross charge $32,326Cash pay $21,982 - 6
Wayne Memorial Hospital
Jesup, GA
Gross charge $32,721Cash pay $26,177 - 7
St. Mary's Health Care System
Athens, GA
Gross charge $34,617Cash pay $22,501Medicare pays (avg) $6,245 - 8
St. Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital
Greensboro, GA
Gross charge $34,617Cash pay $22,501 - 9
Coliseum Medical Centers, Llc, Dba
Macon, GA
Gross charge $50,456Cash pay $15,137Medicare pays (avg) $5,578 - 10
Piedmont Newton Hospital
Covington, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829 - 11
Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center
Cartersville, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829 - 12
Piedmont Walton
Monroe, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829 - 13
Piedmont Hospital, Inc
Atlanta, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829Medicare pays (avg) $5,180 - 14
Piedmont Eastside Medical Center (Acute Care)
Snellville, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829Medicare pays (avg) $5,964 - 15
Piedmont Columbus Regional - Northside
Columbus, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829 - 16
Piedmont Mountainside
Jasper, GA
Gross charge $56,097Cash pay $16,829 - 17
Piedmont Columbus Regional - Midtown
Columbus, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $6,899 - 18
Piedmont Athens Regional
Athens, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $6,791 - 19
Piedmont Rockdale
Conyers, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $7,080 - 20
Piedmont Henry
Stockbridge, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $6,837 - 21
Piedmont Macon North
Macon, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498 - 22
Piedmont Fayette Hospital
Fayetteville, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $6,254 - 23
Piedmont Newnan
Newnan, GA
Gross charge $58,782Cash pay $17,498Medicare pays (avg) $6,503 - 24
Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center
Rome, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,817 - 25
East Georgia Regional Medical Center
Statesboro, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,499 - 26
Grady Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Atlanta, GA
Gross charge — - 27
Tift Regional Medical Center
Tifton, GA
Gross charge — - 28
Crisp Regional Hospital
Cordele, GA
Gross charge — - 29
SGMC Health - Main
Valdosta, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,187 - 30
Fairview Park Hospital (Acute Care)
Dublin, GA
Gross charge — - 31
Memorial Health Meadows Hospital
Vidalia, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,159 - 32
Memorial Hospital and Manor
Bainbridge, GA
Gross charge — - 33
Atrium Health Navicent Baldwin
Milledgeville, GA
Gross charge — - 34
Doctors Hospital (Acute Care)
Augusta, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,880 - 35
Commonspirit-Memorial Hospital-North Georgia
Ringgold, GA
Gross charge — - 36
Northside Hospital Duluth (Acute Care)
Duluth, GA
Gross charge — - 37
Atrium Health Navicent Peach
Byron, GA
Gross charge — - 38
Optim Medical Center-Tattnall
Reidsville, GA
Gross charge — - 39
Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center
Cedartown, GA
Gross charge — - 40
Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Albany, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,299 - 41
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Gainesville
Gainesville, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,963 - 42
Northeast Georgia Medical Center Habersham
Demorest, GA
Gross charge — - 43
St. Joseph's Hospital
Savannah, GA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,063 - 44
Union General Hospital
Blairsville, GA
Gross charge — - 45Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,290
- 46
SGMC Health - Berrien
Nashville, GA
Gross charge — - 47
Southwell Medical, a Campus of Trmc
Adel, GA
Gross charge —
23 Georgia hospitals publish gross charges for heart attack (DRG 281). Prices range from $6,072 to $58,782 — roughly $52,710 apart. The cheapest is Bacon County Hospital in Alma; the most expensive is Piedmont Newnan in Newnan. The state average sits at $46,046.
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 Georgia, 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. Georgia hospitals missing from the list either don't perform heart attack in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 281 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.