Heart Failure Cost in Arkansas — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for heart failure with major comorbidities or complications, often involving fluid overload, low ejection fraction, or arrhythmia.
State average
$38,161
gross charge · DRG 291
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$8,764 – $133,672
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Chambers Memorial Hospital
Danville, AR
Gross charge $8,764Cash pay $4,382Medicare pays (avg) $8,815 - 2
Baxter Health
Mountain Home, AR
Gross charge $16,124Cash pay $11,287Medicare pays (avg) $6,984 - 3Gross charge $17,193Cash pay $10,316
- 4
Forrest City Medical Center
Forrest City, AR
Gross charge $20,306Cash pay $12,183 - 5
Saline Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Benton, AR
Gross charge $30,974Cash pay $9,292Medicare pays (avg) $7,483 - 6
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc
Conway, AR
Gross charge $34,863Cash pay $9,064Medicare pays (avg) $7,947 - 7
St Marys Regional Medical Center
Russellville, AR
Gross charge $43,392Cash pay $13,017Medicare pays (avg) $7,395 - 8
National Park Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge $133,672Cash pay $40,102Medicare pays (avg) $7,314 - 9
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,113 - 10
Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,717 - 11
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Jonesboro, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,070 - 12
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Llc
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,509 - 13
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden
West Memphis, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,896 - 14
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Walnut Ridge, AR
Gross charge — - 15
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton
Morrilton, AR
Gross charge — - 16
Unity Health-White County Medical Center
Searcy, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,345 - 17
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,319 - 18
Great River Medical Center
Blytheville, AR
Gross charge — - 19
Jefferson Regional
Pine Bluff, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,184 - 20
Unity Health - Newport
Newport, AR
Gross charge —
Arkansas hospitals price heart failure (Medicare DRG 291) anywhere from $8,764 to $133,672 — a $124,908 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Chambers Memorial Hospital in Danville; the most expensive is National Park Medical Center (Acute Care) in Hot Springs. The state average sits at $38,161.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 failure at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent heart failure admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Arkansas hospitals missing from the list either don't perform heart failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 291 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.