Respiratory Failure Cost in Arkansas — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for pulmonary edema and respiratory failure, often requiring ventilator support.
State average
$40,282
gross charge · DRG 189
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$8,270 – $137,794
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Chambers Memorial Hospital
Danville, AR
Gross charge $8,270Cash pay $4,135 - 2Gross charge $13,395Cash pay $8,037
- 3
Baxter Health
Mountain Home, AR
Gross charge $16,494Cash pay $11,546Medicare pays (avg) $6,818 - 4
Forrest City Medical Center
Forrest City, AR
Gross charge $23,985Cash pay $14,391 - 5
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc
Conway, AR
Gross charge $28,244Cash pay $7,344Medicare pays (avg) $7,631 - 6
Saline Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Benton, AR
Gross charge $38,151Cash pay $11,445Medicare pays (avg) $7,144 - 7
St Marys Regional Medical Center
Russellville, AR
Gross charge $55,923Cash pay $16,777Medicare pays (avg) $6,710 - 8
National Park Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge $137,794Cash pay $41,338Medicare pays (avg) $7,427 - 9
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,876 - 10
Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,594 - 11
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Jonesboro, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,917 - 12
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Llc
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 13
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden
West Memphis, AR
Gross charge — - 14
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Walnut Ridge, AR
Gross charge — - 15
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton
Morrilton, AR
Gross charge — - 16
Unity Health-White County Medical Center
Searcy, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,999 - 17
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,007 - 18
Great River Medical Center
Blytheville, AR
Gross charge — - 19
Jefferson Regional
Pine Bluff, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,984 - 20
Unity Health - Jacksonville
Jacksonville, AR
Gross charge — - 21
Unity Health - Newport
Newport, AR
Gross charge —
Arkansas hospitals price respiratory failure (Medicare DRG 189) anywhere from $8,270 to $137,794 — a $129,524 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 $40,282.
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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure 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 respiratory failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 189 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.