DRG 542 · Musculoskeletal

Pathological Fractures & Bone Cancer Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals

A broken bone caused by disease weakening the bone, often cancer, or cancer of the bones, muscles, or connective tissue. Care includes pain control, treatment of the underlying condition, and help with safe movement.

State average
$76,431
gross charge · DRG 542
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$38,041 – $144,338
low to high
Lowest $38,041 Highest $144,338

Alabama hospitals price pathological fractures & bone cancer (Medicare DRG 542) anywhere from $38,041 to $144,338 — a $106,297 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Jackson Hospital in Montgomery; the most expensive is Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System in Bessemer. The state average sits at $76,431.

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 pathological fractures & bone cancer at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling pathological fractures & bone cancer in Alabama, 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. Alabama hospitals missing from the list either don't perform pathological fractures & bone cancer in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 542 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

    Jackson Hospital

    Montgomery, AL

    Gross charge $38,041
    Cash pay $7,228
  2. 2

    Helen Keller Hospital

    Sheffield, AL

    Gross charge $69,052
  3. 3

    Athens Limestone Hospital

    Athens, AL

    Gross charge $69,052
  4. 4

    Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus

    Decatur, AL

    Gross charge $69,052
  5. 5

    Red Bay Hospital

    Red Bay, AL

    Gross charge $69,052
  6. 6
    Gross charge $144,338
    Cash pay $36,084
  7. 7

    Southeast Health Medical Center

    Dothan, AL

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  8. 8

    St. Vincent's East

    Birmingham, AL

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  10. 10

    Baptist Medical Center South

    Montgomery, AL

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  11. 11

    East Alabama Medical Center

    Opelika, AL

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  12. 12

    Cullman Regional Medical Center

    Cullman, AL

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  13. 13

    Gadsden Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

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  14. 14

    Fayette Medical Center

    Fayette, AL

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  15. 15

    Riverview Regional Medical Center

    Gadsden, AL

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $15,437
  16. 16

    Medical Center Enterprise

    Enterprise, AL

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  17. 17

    Flowers Hospital

    Dothan, AL

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  18. 18

    UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham

    Birmingham, AL

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  19. 19

    Russell Medical

    Alexander City, AL

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  20. 20

    Baldwin Health

    Foley, AL

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  21. 21

    USA Health University Hospital

    Mobile, AL

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  22. 22

    USA Health Providence Hospital

    Mobile, AL

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  23. 23

    DCH Regional Medical Center

    Tuscaloosa, AL

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  24. 24

    Hale County Hospital

    Greensboro, AL

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  25. 25

    Baptist Health Princeton Hospital

    Birmingham, AL

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  26. 26

    Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Birmingham, AL

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  27. 27

    Prattville Baptist Hospital

    Prattville, AL

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  28. 28

    Whitfield Regional Hospital

    Demopolis, AL

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  29. 29

    UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair

    Pell City, AL

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  31. 31

    Baptist Medical Center East

    Montgomery, AL

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  32. 32

    Russellville Hospital

    Russellville, AL

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  35. 35

    Huntsville Hospital

    Huntsville, AL

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  36. 36

    Regional Medical Center

    Anniston, AL

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