Heart Attack Cost in Mississippi — 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
Wayne General Hospital
Waynesboro, MS
Gross charge $5,235 - 2
Yalobusha General Hospital & Nursing Home
Water Valley, MS
Gross charge $6,072Cash pay $4,250 - 3
North Sunflower Medical Center
Ruleville, MS
Gross charge $8,029Cash pay $4,015 - 4
Greenwood Leflore Hospital
Greenwood, MS
Gross charge $13,509Cash pay $10,807 - 5
Magee General Hospital
Magee, MS
Gross charge $14,810Cash pay $5,139 - 6
South Central Reg Medical Center
Laurel, MS
Gross charge $16,483Cash pay $6,923Medicare pays (avg) $4,441 - 7
South Sunflower County Hospital
Indianola, MS
Gross charge $18,849 - 8
Southwest Ms Regional Medical Center
Mccomb, MS
Gross charge $19,431Cash pay $11,659 - 9
Lawrence County Hospital
Monticello, MS
Gross charge $19,431Cash pay $11,659 - 10
Mississippi Methodist Rehab Center
Jackson, MS
Gross charge $29,069 - 11
Delta Health System - the Medical Center
Greenville, MS
Gross charge $32,902 - 12
Marion General Hospital
Columbia, MS
Gross charge $34,775Cash pay $20,865 - 13
Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch Hospital
Olive Branch, MS
Gross charge $62,936Cash pay $13,846 - 14
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
Gulfport, MS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,700 - 15
Merit Health River Region
Vicksburg, MS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,313 - 16Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,205
- 17
Pascagoula Hospital - Singing River Health System
Pascagoula, MS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,476 - 18
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville
Booneville, MS
Gross charge — - 19
King's Daughters Medical Center-Brookhaven
Brookhaven, MS
Gross charge — - 20
Merit Health Central
Jackson, MS
Gross charge — - 21
Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center- South
Meridian, MS
Gross charge — - 22
Merit Health Natchez (Acute Care)
Natchez, MS
Gross charge — - 23
Merit Health Wesley
Hattiesburg, MS
Gross charge — - 24
Crossgates River Oaks Hospital
Brandon, MS
Gross charge — - 25
Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center
Meridian, MS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,967 - 26
Merit Health Woman's Hospital
Flowood, MS
Gross charge — - 27
Merit Health River Oaks
Flowood, MS
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,813 - 28
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto
Southaven, MS
Gross charge — - 29
Baptist Medical Center Leake
Carthage, MS
Gross charge — - 30
Bmh-Calhoun
Calhoun City, MS
Gross charge — - 31
Memorial Hospital Biloxi
Biloxi, MS
Gross charge — - 32
Bolivar Medical Center
Cleveland, MS
Gross charge — - 33
Singing River Gulfport
Gulfport, MS
Gross charge — - 34
Ochsner Medical Center - Hancock
Bay Saint Louis, MS
Gross charge — - 35
Bmh-Golden Triangle
Columbus, MS
Gross charge —
13 Mississippi hospitals publish gross charges for heart attack (DRG 281). Prices range from $5,235 to $62,936 — roughly $57,701 apart. The cheapest is Wayne General Hospital in Waynesboro; the most expensive is Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch Hospital in Olive Branch. The state average sits at $21,656.
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 Mississippi, 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. Mississippi 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.