Extreme Prematurity or Newborn Breathing Problems Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
Care for newborns born extremely early or with underdeveloped lungs (respiratory distress syndrome). These babies are cared for in a neonatal intensive care unit with breathing support, warmth, and feeding assistance.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $11,906Cash pay $1,786 - 2
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $12,385Cash pay $7,592 - 3
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg, TN
Gross charge $18,782Cash pay $4,677 - 4
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $22,648Cash pay $18,118 - 5
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester
Winchester, TN
Gross charge $34,350Cash pay $8,485 - 6
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $103,637Cash pay $22,800 - 7
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $232,278Cash pay $34,842 - 8
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge — - 9
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 10
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 11
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 12
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge — - 13
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge — - 14
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 15
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 16
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 17
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 18Gross charge —
- 19
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 20
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge — - 21
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 22
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 25
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 26
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge — - 28
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 29
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 30
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 31
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 32
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 33
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 34
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 39
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 41
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 42
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 43
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 44
Cumberland Medical Center
Crossville, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Fort Loudoun Medical Center
Lenoir City, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price extreme prematurity or newborn breathing problems (Medicare DRG 790) anywhere from $11,906 to $232,278 — a $220,372 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room in Bristol; the most expensive is Johnson City Medical Center in Johnson City. The state average sits at $62,284.
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 extreme prematurity or newborn breathing problems 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 extreme prematurity or newborn breathing problems 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. Tennessee hospitals missing from the list either don't perform extreme prematurity or newborn breathing problems in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 790 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.