DRG 291 · Cardiovascular

Heart Failure Cost in Illinois — Compare All Hospitals

Hospitalization for heart failure with major comorbidities or complications, often involving fluid overload, low ejection fraction, or arrhythmia.

State average
$36,768
gross charge · DRG 291
Hospitals
22
with published pricing
Price range
$7,396 – $87,550
low to high
Lowest $7,396 Highest $87,550

22 Illinois hospitals list a gross charge for heart failure under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $7,396 to $87,550. The cheapest is Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis; the most expensive is Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. The state average sits at $36,768.

What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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. Illinois 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Massac Memorial Hospital

    Metropolis, IL

    Gross charge $7,396
    Cash pay $5,177
  2. 2
    Gross charge $18,561
  3. 3
    Gross charge $21,016
  4. 4
    Gross charge $21,995
    Cash pay $19,796
  5. 5

    Rush Oak Park Hospital

    Oak Park, IL

    111 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $26,760
    Cash pay $13,380
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,667
  6. 6
    Gross charge $28,595
    Cash pay $17,729
  7. 7

    Northshore University Healthsystem - Evanston Hospital

    Evanston, IL

    428 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $31,918
    Cash pay $20,747
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,711
  8. 8

    Roseland Community Hospital

    Chicago, IL

    20 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $32,127
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,010
  9. 9
    Gross charge $33,102
    Cash pay $21,516
  10. 10

    Swedish Hospital

    Chicago, IL

    88 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $33,340
    Cash pay $21,671
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,392
  11. 11

    Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center

    Mattoon, IL

    238 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $35,285
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,447
  12. 12
    Gross charge $38,009
  13. 13

    Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers

    Morris, IL

    101 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $40,261
    Cash pay $10,903
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,365
  14. 14
    Gross charge $40,279
    Cash pay $24,167
  15. 15

    Memorial Hospital Belleville

    Belleville, IL

    250 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $40,279
    Cash pay $24,167
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,153
  16. 16

    University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics

    Chicago, IL

    82 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $41,380
    Cash pay $28,966
    Medicare pays (avg) $14,642
  17. 17

    Alton Memorial Hospital

    Alton, IL

    152 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $42,244
    Cash pay $25,346
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,744
  18. 18

    Copley Memorial Hospital

    Aurora, IL

    177 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $44,523
    Cash pay $22,262
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,929
  19. 19

    Rush University Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    189 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $46,804
    Cash pay $23,402
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,870
  20. 20

    UW Health SwedishAmerican Hospital

    Rockford, IL

    134 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $48,445
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,580
  21. 21

    Gateway Regional Medical Center

    Granite City, IL

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $49,031
    Cash pay $29,419
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,576
  22. 22

    Vista Medical Center East

    Waukegan, IL

    38 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $87,550
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,375
  23. 23

    Saint Joseph Medical Center - Joliet

    Joliet, IL

    209 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,515
  24. 24

    Carle Health Proctor Hospital (Acute Care)

    Peoria, IL

    60 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,668
  25. 25

    Blessing Hospital (Acute Care)

    Quincy, IL

    238 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,706
  26. 26

    Advocate Sherman Hospital

    Elgin, IL

    240 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,577
  27. 27
    Gross charge
  28. 28

    Advocate Trinity Hospital

    Chicago, IL

    259 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,914
  29. 29

    West Suburban Medical Center

    Oak Park, IL

    43 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,466
  30. 30

    Saint Francis Hospital

    Evanston, IL

    58 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,768
  31. 31

    Louis a Weiss Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Chicago, IL

    37 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,963
  32. 32

    Mc Donough District Hospital

    Macomb, IL

    21 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,751
  33. 33

    Carle Foundation Hospital (Acute Care)

    Urbana, IL

    315 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,252
  34. 34

    Resurrection Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    237 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,820
  35. 35

    Carle Health Pekin Hospital

    Pekin, IL

    53 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,898
  36. 36

    Carle Neuroscience Institute at BroMenn Medical Center

    Normal, IL

    166 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,404
  37. 37

    Memorial Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Springfield, IL

    190 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,881
  38. 38

    St. Mary's Hospital - Kankakee

    Kankakee, IL

    67 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,865
  39. 39

    Mercy Medical Center

    Aurora, IL

    76 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,825
  40. 40

    Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center

    Chicago, IL

    63 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,751
  41. 41

    Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Chicago, IL

    111 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,859
  42. 42

    Heartland Regional Medical Center

    Marion, IL

    76 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,933
  43. 43

    Advocate Condell Medical Center

    Libertyville, IL

    301 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,153
  44. 44

    Advocate Christ Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Oak Lawn, IL

    380 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,426
  45. 45

    Carle Health Methodist Hospital

    Peoria, IL

    128 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,135
  46. 46

    Saint Joseph Hospital - Elgin

    Elgin, IL

    42 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,050
  47. 47

    Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Acute Care)

    Park Ridge, IL

    392 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,606
  48. 48

    Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago

    Chicago, IL

    52 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,448
  49. 49

    Ascension Alexian Brothers

    Elk Grove Village, IL

    247 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,656
  50. 50

    UnityPoint Health - Trinity Rock Island Hospital

    Rock Island, IL

    161 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,086
  51. 51

    Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital

    Downers Grove, IL

    315 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,120
  52. 52

    Anderson Hospital

    Maryville, IL

    111 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,223
  53. 53

    St Alexius Medical Center

    Hoffman Estates, IL

    205 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,983
  54. 54

    Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital

    Barrington, IL

    210 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,472
  55. 55
    Gross charge
  56. 56

    North Chicago VA Medical Center

    North Chicago, IL

    Gross charge
  57. 57
    Gross charge
  58. 58
    Gross charge
  59. 59

    Red Bud Regional Hospital

    Red Bud, IL

    Gross charge
  60. 60

    Carle Richland Memorial Hospital

    Olney, IL

    Gross charge
  61. 61

    SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia

    Centralia, IL

    53 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,229
  62. 62

    HSHS St. John's Hospital

    Springfield, IL

    279 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,113
  63. 63

    UChicago Medicine AdventHealth La Grange

    La Grange, IL

    138 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,277
  64. 64

    Edward Hospital

    Naperville, IL

    352 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,700
  65. 65

    UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Bolingbrook

    Bolingbrook, IL

    70 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,898
  66. 66

    Decatur Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)

    Decatur, IL

    188 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,434
  67. 67
    Gross charge
  68. 68
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