Heart Attack Cost in Minnesota — 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 Minnesota
- The lowest published charge ($2,351 at Park Nicollet Methodist 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
Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital
Saint Louis Park, MN
Gross charge $2,351Cash pay $1,237Medicare pays (avg) $5,853 - 2
Lakeview Hospital
Stillwater, MN
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 3
Regions Hospital
Saint Paul, MN
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558Medicare pays (avg) $6,414 - 4
Hutchinson Health
Hutchinson, MN
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 5
Olivia Hospital & Clinic
Olivia, MN
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 6
Lakewood Health System
Staples, MN
Gross charge $7,369Cash pay $4,569 - 7
Perham Health
Perham, MN
Gross charge $8,578Cash pay $5,576 - 8
North Memorial Health - Robbinsdale Hospital
Robbinsdale, MN
Gross charge $9,911Cash pay $5,223Medicare pays (avg) $5,114 - 9
North Memorial Health – Maple Grove Hospital
Maple Grove, MN
Gross charge $9,911Cash pay $5,223 - 10
Astera Health
Wadena, MN
Gross charge $11,731Cash pay $8,140 - 11
LifeCare Medical Center
Roseau, MN
Gross charge $15,283Cash pay $13,449 - 12
Madison Hospital
Madison, MN
Gross charge $33,283Cash pay $28,291 - 13
Essentia Health St Mary's Medical Center
Duluth, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,454 - 14
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN
Gross charge — - 15
Alomere Health
Alexandria, MN
Gross charge — - 16
Winona Health
Winona, MN
Gross charge — - 17
Fairview Lakes Health Services
Wyoming, MN
Gross charge — - 18
Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital
Grand Rapids, MN
Gross charge — - 19Gross charge —
- 20
M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital
Edina, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,576 - 21Gross charge —
- 22
Essentia Health St. Mary's-Detroit Lakes
Detroit Lakes, MN
Gross charge — - 23
Fairview Northland Regional Hospital
Princeton, MN
Gross charge — - 24
M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital
Burnsville, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,328 - 25
M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital
Maplewood, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,405 - 26
M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital
Woodbury, MN
Gross charge — - 27
Essentia Health Sandstone
Sandstone, MN
Gross charge — - 28
Essentia Health Ada
Ada, MN
Gross charge — - 29
Essentia Health-Holy Trinity Hospital (Graceville)
Graceville, MN
Gross charge — - 30
Rainy Lake Medical Center
International Falls, MN
Gross charge — - 31
Kittson Healthcare
Hallock, MN
Gross charge — - 32
Ortonville Area Health Services
Ortonville, MN
Gross charge — - 33
Essentia Health-Moose Lake
Moose Lake, MN
Gross charge — - 34
Essentia Health-Deer River
Deer River, MN
Gross charge — - 35
St Gabriels Hospital
Little Falls, MN
Gross charge — - 36
New Ulm Medical Center
New Ulm, MN
Gross charge — - 37
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Duluth, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,469 - 38
Meeker Memorial Hospital & Clinics
Litchfield, MN
Gross charge — - 39
Allina United Hospital
Saint Paul, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,059 - 40
Essentia Health Virginia
Virginia, MN
Gross charge — - 41
Sanford Bemidji Medical Center
Bemidji, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,017 - 42
Essentia Health Fosston
Fosston, MN
Gross charge — - 43Gross charge —
- 44
Essentia Health Duluth
Duluth, MN
Gross charge — - 45
Cambridge Medical Center
Cambridge, MN
Gross charge — - 46
Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Acute Care)
Minneapolis, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,993 - 47
Owatonna Hospital
Owatonna, MN
Gross charge — - 48
Buffalo Hospital
Buffalo, MN
Gross charge — - 49
Mercy Hospital
Coon Rapids, MN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,618
12 Minnesota hospitals list a gross charge for heart attack under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $2,351 to $33,283. The cheapest is Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital in Saint Louis Park; the most expensive is Madison Hospital in Madison. The state average sits at $10,476.
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 Minnesota, 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. Minnesota 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.