Pneumonia Cost in Virginia — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications — one of the most common medical admissions.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for pneumonia. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- IV antibiotics and oxygen therapy
- Chest imaging, blood cultures, and routine labs
- Respiratory treatments (nebulizers, etc.) during the stay
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist and infectious-disease consultant professional fees
- Pulmonologist consultation if required
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Follow-up chest imaging
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does pneumonia best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Pneumonia Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for pneumonia survive 30 days. The headline pneumonia outcome.
Pneumonia Readmissions
Strong discharge planning, the right outpatient antibiotic, and follow-up reduce returns to the hospital.
Sepsis Care Bundle
Severe pneumonia can become sepsis. Hospitals with strong sepsis-bundle compliance catch and treat it early.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For pneumonia, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- For patients with weakened immunity (chemotherapy, transplant, HIV), a hospital with infectious-disease specialists on staff may handle complex cases better.
- For severe pneumonia that may require ICU care, a hospital with a closed-staffed ICU is generally better equipped.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
- What outpatient antibiotic is prescribed, and is it covered?
- When is the follow-up chest X-ray, and where will it be done?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Bath Community Hospital
Hot Springs, VA
Gross charge $14,686Cash pay $11,015 - 2
UVA Health Haymarket Medical Center
Haymarket, VA
Gross charge $20,694Cash pay $10,347Medicare pays (avg) $4,839 - 3
UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center
Culpeper, VA
Gross charge $20,741Cash pay $10,370Medicare pays (avg) $6,048 - 4Gross charge $23,155Cash pay $11,577Medicare pays (avg) $5,580
- 5
Carilion Medical Center
Roanoke, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366Medicare pays (avg) $5,411 - 6
Carilion New River Valley Medical Center
Christiansburg, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366Medicare pays (avg) $5,152 - 7
Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital
Rocky Mount, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366Medicare pays (avg) $6,001 - 8
Carilion Tazewell Community Hospital
Tazewell, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366 - 9
Carilion Giles Community Hospital
Pearisburg, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366 - 10
Carilion Rockbridge Community Hospital
Lexington, VA
Gross charge $23,944Cash pay $14,366 - 11
Fauquier Health
Warrenton, VA
Gross charge $26,707Cash pay $10,683Medicare pays (avg) $4,779 - 12
Buchanan General Hospital
Grundy, VA
Gross charge $35,495Cash pay $12,423Medicare pays (avg) $6,044 - 13
Twin County Regional Hospital
Galax, VA
Gross charge $37,070Cash pay $14,828 - 14
Sovah Health - Danville
Danville, VA
Gross charge $37,786Cash pay $15,114Medicare pays (avg) $5,177 - 15
Clinch Valley Medical Center
Richlands, VA
Gross charge $42,599Cash pay $17,040Medicare pays (avg) $4,958 - 16
Wythe County Community Hospital
Wytheville, VA
Gross charge $52,652Cash pay $21,061 - 17
Mary Washington Hospital
Fredericksburg, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,828 - 18
Inova Alexandria Hospital
Alexandria, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,851 - 19
Lewisgale Medical Center
Salem, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,334 - 20
Reston Hospital Center
Reston, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,931 - 21
Lewisgale Hospital Montgomery
Blacksburg, VA
Gross charge — - 22
Lewisgale Hospital Pulaski
Pulaski, VA
Gross charge — - 23
Lewisgale Hospital Alleghany
Low Moor, VA
Gross charge — - 24
Stafford Hospital, Llc
Stafford, VA
Gross charge — - 25
Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center
Fredericksburg, VA
Gross charge — - 26
Stonesprings Hospital Center
Dulles, VA
Gross charge — - 27
Augusta Health (Acute Care)
Fishersville, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,962 - 28
VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital
Tappahannock, VA
Gross charge — - 29
Inova Loudoun Hospital
Leesburg, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,004 - 30
Inova Fairfax Medical Campus
Falls Church, VA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,328 - 31
Inova Fair Oaks Hospital
Fairfax, VA
Gross charge — - 32
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital
Alexandria, VA
Gross charge —
16 Virginia hospitals publish gross charges for pneumonia (DRG 194). Prices range from $14,686 to $52,652 — roughly $37,966 apart. The cheapest is Bath Community Hospital in Hot Springs; the most expensive is Wythe County Community Hospital in Wytheville. The state average sits at $28,453.
These numbers are list prices — what the hospital bills before any insurance adjustment. 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 pneumonia 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 pneumonia 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. Virginia hospitals missing from the list either don't perform pneumonia in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 194 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.