Heart Attack Cost in Kentucky — 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?
Data notes for Kentucky
- The lowest published charge ($2,012 at TJ Health Columbia Hospital) 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
TJ Health Columbia Hospital
Columbia, KY
Gross charge $2,012Cash pay $1,308 - 2
Monroe County Medical Center
Tompkinsville, KY
Gross charge $6,748Cash pay $5,601 - 3
Pineville Community Health Center
Pineville, KY
Gross charge $7,410 - 4
Russell County Hospital
Russell Springs, KY
Gross charge $9,629Cash pay $7,703 - 5
Taylor Regional Hospital
Campbellsville, KY
Gross charge $14,021Cash pay $7,011 - 6
Spring View Hospital
Lebanon, KY
Gross charge $26,858Cash pay $10,743 - 7
Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital
Greenville, KY
Gross charge $27,917Cash pay $18,146 - 8
Owensboro Health Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Owensboro, KY
Gross charge $27,917Cash pay $18,146Medicare pays (avg) $5,848 - 9
Owensboro Health Twin Lakes Medical Center
Leitchfield, KY
Gross charge $27,917Cash pay $18,146 - 10
Kentucky River Medical Center
Jackson, KY
Gross charge $30,363Cash pay $18,218 - 11
UK St. Claire
Morehead, KY
Gross charge $32,469Cash pay $24,352 - 12
Murray-Calloway County Hospital (Acute Care)
Murray, KY
Gross charge $35,159Cash pay $22,853Medicare pays (avg) $5,654 - 13
Three Rivers Medical Center
Louisa, KY
Gross charge $37,339Cash pay $22,404 - 14
Baptist Health Hardin
Elizabethtown, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876Medicare pays (avg) $4,939 - 15
Baptist Health Richmond
Richmond, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876Medicare pays (avg) $4,624 - 16
Baptist Health Corbin (Acute Care)
Corbin, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876Medicare pays (avg) $4,817 - 17
Baptist Health Lexington
Lexington, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876Medicare pays (avg) $4,089 - 18
Baptist Health Paducah
Paducah, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876 - 19
Baptist Health Louisville
Louisville, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876Medicare pays (avg) $4,357 - 20
Baptist Health La Grange
La Grange, KY
Gross charge $50,502Cash pay $37,876 - 21
Jackson Purchase Medical Center
Mayfield, KY
Gross charge $63,906Cash pay $25,562 - 22
Meadowview Regional Medical Center
Maysville, KY
Gross charge $64,723Cash pay $25,889 - 23
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care)
Somerset, KY
Gross charge $69,360Cash pay $27,744Medicare pays (avg) $5,460 - 24
Highlands ARH Regional Medical Center
Prestonsburg, KY
Gross charge — - 25
UK King's Daughters Medical Center
Ashland, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,825 - 26
Saint Joseph Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,087 - 27Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,194
- 28
UofL Health – Shelbyville Hospital
Shelbyville, KY
Gross charge — - 29
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Flaget Memorial Hospital
Bardstown, KY
Gross charge — - 30
UofL Health – Jewish Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,562 - 31
Jennie Stuart Medical Center
Hopkinsville, KY
Gross charge — - 32
Deaconess Henderson Hospital
Henderson, KY
Gross charge — - 33
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph Mount Sterling
Mount Sterling, KY
Gross charge — - 34
Harrison Memorial Hospital
Cynthiana, KY
Gross charge — - 35
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville (Acute Care)
Madisonville, KY
Gross charge — - 36
University of Louisville Hospital
Louisville, KY
Gross charge — - 37
CHI Saint Joseph Health - Saint Joseph East
Lexington, KY
Gross charge — - 38Gross charge —
- 39
McDowell ARH Hospital
Mc Dowell, KY
Gross charge — - 40
University of Kentucky Hospital
Lexington, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,476 - 41
Norton Hospitals, Inc
Louisville, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,078 - 42
Mercy Health - Lourdes Hospital
Paducah, KY
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,680 - 43
Whitesburg ARH Hospital
Whitesburg, KY
Gross charge — - 44
Middlesboro ARH Hospital
Middlesboro, KY
Gross charge — - 45Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,476
- 46
Harlan ARH Hospital
Harlan, KY
Gross charge — - 47
Paintsville ARH Hospital
Paintsville, KY
Gross charge — - 48
Mary Breckinridge ARH Hospital
Hyden, KY
Gross charge —
23 Kentucky hospitals list a gross charge for heart attack under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $2,012 to $69,360. The cheapest is TJ Health Columbia Hospital in Columbia; the most expensive is Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital (Acute Care) in Somerset. The state average sits at $36,403.
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 Kentucky, 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. Kentucky 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.