Stroke Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain. Hospital care includes brain imaging, monitoring, medicines to lower the chance of another stroke, and early rehabilitation planning.
State average
$22,324
gross charge · DRG 066
Hospitals
11
with published pricing
Price range
$5,175 – $40,420
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mobile, AL
Gross charge $5,175 - 2
D W Mcmillan Memorial Hospital
Brewton, AL
Gross charge $5,413Cash pay $3,248 - 3
Atmore Community Hospital
Atmore, AL
Gross charge $5,413Cash pay $3,248 - 4
Bibb Medical Center
Centreville, AL
Gross charge $9,619 - 5
North Baldwin Infirmary
Bay Minette, AL
Gross charge $15,716Cash pay $7,455 - 6
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $22,823Cash pay $4,336 - 7
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $23,015Cash pay $7,455 - 8
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $38,777 - 9
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $38,777 - 10
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $40,420Cash pay $14,147 - 11
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $40,420Cash pay $14,147 - 12
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,950 - 13
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,816 - 15
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,686 - 17
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $6,136 - 19
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 20
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 21
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 23
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 24
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,315 - 25
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 27
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 28
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 30
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 31
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $3,911 - 33
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 34
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 36
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 37
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 38
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 066) anywhere from $5,175 to $40,420 — a $35,245 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Springhill Medical Center (Acute Care) in Mobile; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $22,324.
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 stroke 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 stroke 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. Alabama hospitals missing from the list either don't perform stroke in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 066 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.