Infection Requiring Surgery Cost in Arkansas — Compare All Hospitals
A serious infection that requires an operation as part of treatment, such as surgery to remove infected tissue or drain an abscess. The stay involves the operation plus IV antibiotics and close monitoring, often in intensive care.
State average
$152,850
gross charge · DRG 853
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$20,408 – $486,442
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Chambers Memorial Hospital
Danville, AR
Gross charge $20,408Cash pay $10,204 - 2
Forrest City Medical Center
Forrest City, AR
Gross charge $57,826Cash pay $34,695 - 3
Magnolia Regional Medical Center
Magnolia, AR
Gross charge $60,464Cash pay $36,278 - 4
Baxter Health
Mountain Home, AR
Gross charge $78,320Cash pay $54,824Medicare pays (avg) $28,577 - 5
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc
Conway, AR
Gross charge $120,596Cash pay $31,355Medicare pays (avg) $29,998 - 6
Saline Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Benton, AR
Gross charge $143,756Cash pay $43,127 - 7
St Marys Regional Medical Center
Russellville, AR
Gross charge $254,985Cash pay $76,495Medicare pays (avg) $23,688 - 8
National Park Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge $486,442Cash pay $145,933Medicare pays (avg) $28,890 - 9
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,998 - 10
Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $29,567 - 11
Ouachita County Medical Center
Camden, AR
Gross charge — - 12
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Jonesboro, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $28,695 - 13
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Llc
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 14
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden
West Memphis, AR
Gross charge — - 15
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Walnut Ridge, AR
Gross charge — - 16
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton
Morrilton, AR
Gross charge — - 17
Unity Health-White County Medical Center
Searcy, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $36,587 - 18
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $42,975 - 19
Great River Medical Center
Blytheville, AR
Gross charge — - 20
Jefferson Regional
Pine Bluff, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $33,219
Arkansas hospitals price infection requiring surgery (Medicare DRG 853) anywhere from $20,408 to $486,442 — a $466,034 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 $152,850.
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 infection requiring surgery 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 infection requiring surgery 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 infection requiring surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 853 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.