Heart Attack Cost in Kansas — 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
William Newton Hospital
Winfield, KS
Gross charge $8,991 - 2
Decatur Health
Oberlin, KS
Gross charge $9,759Cash pay $8,783 - 3
Rooks County Health Center
Plainville, KS
Gross charge $10,159Cash pay $7,619 - 4
Hiawatha Community Hospital
Hiawatha, KS
Gross charge $10,452 - 5
Amberwell Atchison
Atchison, KS
Gross charge $10,452 - 6
Community Memorial Healthcare
Marysville, KS
Gross charge $10,552 - 7
Memorial Hospital
Abilene, KS
Gross charge $13,559 - 8
Kansas Heart Hospital
Wichita, KS
Gross charge $16,408Cash pay $10,337 - 9
Lmh
Lawrence, KS
Gross charge $34,259Cash pay $12,333 - 10
Salina Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Salina, KS
Gross charge $40,853Cash pay $28,597Medicare pays (avg) $5,178 - 11
University of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, KS
Gross charge $76,636Cash pay $15,327Medicare pays (avg) $6,305 - 12Gross charge $76,636Cash pay $15,327Medicare pays (avg) $4,736
- 13
Miami County Medical Center
Paola, KS
Gross charge $76,636Cash pay $15,327 - 14
Mercy Hospital Pittsburg (Acute Care)
Pittsburg, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,108 - 15
Saint John Hospital
Leavenworth, KS
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,843 - 16
Hays Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hays, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,144 - 17
Susan B Allen Memorial Hospital
El Dorado, KS
Gross charge — - 18
Stormont Vail Health - Flint Hills Campus
Junction City, KS
Gross charge — - 19
Stormont Vail Hospital
Topeka, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,678 - 20
Wichita VA Medical Center
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 21
Labette Health
Parsons, KS
Gross charge — - 22
Ascension Via Christi St. Francis
Wichita, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,491 - 23
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,832 - 24
Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan, Inc
Manhattan, KS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,112 - 25
Providence Medical Center
Kansas City, KS
Gross charge —Cash pay $9,900 - 26
Centura St. Catherine-Dodge City
Dodge City, KS
Gross charge — - 27
Menorah Medical Center (Acute Care)
Overland Park, KS
Gross charge — - 28
Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute
Leawood, KS
Gross charge — - 29
Kansas Spine & Specialty Hospital, Llc
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 30
Ascension Via Christi St. Teresa
Wichita, KS
Gross charge — - 31
Hospital District #1 of Rice County
Lyons, KS
Gross charge — - 32
Wamego Health Center
Wamego, KS
Gross charge — - 33
Pawnee Valley Community Hospital
Larned, KS
Gross charge — - 34
Kingman Healthcare Center
Kingman, KS
Gross charge — - 35
Newman Regional Health (Critical Access)
Emporia, KS
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,094 - 36
Norton County Hospital
Norton, KS
Gross charge —
13 Kansas hospitals list a gross charge for heart attack under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $8,991 to $76,636. The cheapest is William Newton Hospital in Winfield; the most expensive is Miami County Medical Center in Paola. The state average sits at $30,412.
What's listed is each hospital's gross charge — its published price for the inpatient stay, before any insurance discount. 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 Kansas, 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. Kansas 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.