DRG 304 · Cardiovascular

High Blood Pressure Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals

Blood pressure high enough to require inpatient treatment. Care involves medicines to lower blood pressure safely and monitoring for effects on the heart, brain, and kidneys.

State average
$25,286
gross charge · DRG 304
Hospitals
13
with published pricing
Price range
$3,722 – $40,493
low to high
Lowest $3,722 Highest $40,493

Alabama hospitals price high blood pressure (Medicare DRG 304) anywhere from $3,722 to $40,493 — a $36,770 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care) in Mobile; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $25,286.

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 high blood pressure 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 high blood pressure 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. Alabama hospitals missing from the list either don't perform high blood pressure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 304 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.

Data notes for Alabama

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Mobile, AL

    Gross charge $3,722
  2. 2

    D W Mcmillan Memorial Hospital

    Brewton, AL

    Gross charge $8,443
    Cash pay $5,066
  3. 3

    Atmore Community Hospital

    Atmore, AL

    Gross charge $8,443
    Cash pay $5,066
  4. 4

    Bibb Medical Center

    Centreville, AL

    Gross charge $13,455
  5. 5

    North Baldwin Infirmary

    Bay Minette, AL

    Gross charge $19,848
    Cash pay $8,211
  6. 6
    Gross charge $23,945
    Cash pay $5,986
  7. 7

    Mizell Memorial Hospital

    Opp, AL

    Gross charge $25,646
    Cash pay $23,081
  8. 8

    Jackson Hospital

    Montgomery, AL

    Gross charge $28,918
    Cash pay $5,494
  9. 9

    Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)

    Fairhope, AL

    Gross charge $35,764
    Cash pay $12,037
  10. 10

    Helen Keller Hospital

    Sheffield, AL

    Gross charge $39,776
  11. 11

    Red Bay Hospital

    Red Bay, AL

    Gross charge $39,776
  12. 12

    North Alabama Medical Center

    Florence, AL

    Gross charge $40,493
    Cash pay $14,172
  13. 13

    North Alabama Shoals Hospital

    Muscle Shoals, AL

    Gross charge $40,493
    Cash pay $14,172
  14. 14

    Southeast Health Medical Center

    Dothan, AL

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge —
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,474
  15. 15

    St. Vincent's East

    Birmingham, AL

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  16. 16

    Baptist Medical Center South

    Montgomery, AL

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  17. 17

    East Alabama Medical Center

    Opelika, AL

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  18. 18

    Cullman Regional Medical Center

    Cullman, AL

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  19. 19

    Gadsden Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

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  20. 20

    Riverview Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

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    Cash pay $9,981
  21. 21

    Medical Center Enterprise

    Enterprise, AL

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  22. 22

    Flowers Hospital

    Dothan, AL

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  23. 23

    Russell Medical

    Alexander City, AL

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  24. 24

    Baldwin Health

    Foley, AL

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  25. 25

    USA Health University Hospital

    Mobile, AL

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  26. 26

    DCH Regional Medical Center

    Tuscaloosa, AL

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  27. 27

    Hale County Hospital

    Greensboro, AL

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  28. 28

    Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Birmingham, AL

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  29. 29

    Whitfield Regional Hospital

    Demopolis, AL

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  31. 31

    Russellville Hospital

    Russellville, AL

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  32. 32
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  33. 33
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  34. 34

    Huntsville Hospital

    Huntsville, AL

    18 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $8,786
  35. 35

    Regional Medical Center

    Anniston, AL

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  36. 36

    Fayette Medical Center

    Fayette, AL

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  37. 37

    Prattville Baptist Hospital

    Prattville, AL

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  38. 38

    Baptist Medical Center East

    Montgomery, AL

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  39. 39

    UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham

    Birmingham, AL

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  40. 40

    UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair

    Pell City, AL

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