Heart Attack Cost in Tennessee — 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
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $5,142Cash pay $4,114 - 2
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $22,256Cash pay $13,643Medicare pays (avg) $4,863 - 3
Sycamore Shoals Hospital
Elizabethton, TN
Gross charge $26,982Cash pay $4,047 - 4
Starr Regional Medical Center Athens
Athens, TN
Gross charge $37,766Cash pay $7,402 - 5
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $40,184Cash pay $6,028Medicare pays (avg) $5,686 - 6
Highpoint Health-Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas
Gallatin, TN
Gross charge $43,996Cash pay $14,343Medicare pays (avg) $4,689 - 7
Highpoint Health-Trousdale With Ascension Saint
Hartsville, TN
Gross charge $43,996Cash pay $14,343 - 8Gross charge $43,996Cash pay $14,343
- 9
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $45,433Cash pay $6,815Medicare pays (avg) $5,530 - 10
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $46,815Cash pay $10,299Medicare pays (avg) $6,394 - 11Gross charge $49,744Cash pay $14,575
- 12
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester
Winchester, TN
Gross charge $50,192Cash pay $12,397 - 13
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,176 - 14
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 16
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 17
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,458 - 18
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,792 - 19
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 20
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 21
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 22
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,867 - 25
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,173 - 26
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 28Gross charge —
- 29
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 30
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 31
Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,224 - 32
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,372 - 33
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,399 - 34
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,075 - 35
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 39
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 41
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 42
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 43
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,529 - 44
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,072 - 46
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 47
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 48
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,913 - 49
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Hendersonville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,156 - 50
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,401 - 51
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,460
Tennessee hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 281) anywhere from $5,142 to $50,192 — a $45,050 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester in Winchester. The state average sits at $38,042.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 Tennessee, 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. Tennessee 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.