DRG 066 · Nervous System

Stroke Cost in Tennessee — 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
$28,009
gross charge · DRG 066
Hospitals
20
with published pricing
Price range
$3,840 – $51,784
low to high
Lowest $3,840 Highest $51,784

Tennessee hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 066) anywhere from $3,840 to $51,784 — a $47,944 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Starr Regional Medical Center Athens in Athens. The state average sits at $28,009.

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. Tennessee 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.

Data notes for Tennessee

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Unity Medical Center

    Manchester, TN

    Gross charge $3,840
    Cash pay $3,072
  2. 2
    Gross charge $16,061
    Cash pay $5,236
  3. 3
    Gross charge $16,061
    Cash pay $5,236
  4. 4
    Gross charge $16,061
    Cash pay $5,236
  5. 5
    Gross charge $16,061
    Cash pay $5,236
  6. 6

    University Health System, Inc

    Knoxville, TN

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $26,865
    Cash pay $8,060
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,135
  7. 7
    Gross charge $27,576
    Cash pay $8,080
  8. 8

    Sycamore Shoals Hospital

    Elizabethton, TN

    Gross charge $27,876
    Cash pay $4,181
  9. 9

    Cookeville Regional Medical Center

    Cookeville, TN

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $28,096
    Cash pay $17,223
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,287
  10. 10
    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  11. 11

    Holston Valley Medical Center

    Kingsport, TN

    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  12. 12
    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  13. 13

    Greeneville Community Hospital

    Greeneville, TN

    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  14. 14
    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  15. 15

    Franklin Woods Community Hospital

    Johnson City, TN

    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  16. 16

    Hancock County Hospital

    Sneedville, TN

    Gross charge $29,878
    Cash pay $4,482
  17. 17

    Johnson City Medical Center

    Johnson City, TN

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $35,335
    Cash pay $5,300
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,859
  18. 18

    Methodist Hospitals of Memphis

    Memphis, TN

    27 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $38,176
    Cash pay $8,399
    Medicare pays (avg) $5,083
  19. 19
    Gross charge $47,243
    Cash pay $11,763
  20. 20

    Starr Regional Medical Center Athens

    Athens, TN

    Gross charge $51,784
    Cash pay $10,150
  21. 21

    Jackson-Madison County General Hospital

    Jackson, TN

    17 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,735
  22. 22

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County

    Huntingdon, TN

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    LaFollette Medical Center

    La Follette, TN

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  24. 24

    Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge

    Oak Ridge, TN

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  25. 25

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

    Memphis, TN

    30 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,378
  26. 26

    Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford

    Murfreesboro, TN

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,103
  27. 27

    Jefferson Memorial Hospital

    Jefferson City, TN

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    Volunteer Community Hospital

    Martin, TN

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    Dyersburg Regional Medical Center

    Dyersburg, TN

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  32. 32

    Maury Regional Medical Center (Acute Care — Columbia)

    Columbia, TN

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,184
  33. 33

    Leconte Medical Center

    Sevierville, TN

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  34. 34

    Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West

    Nashville, TN

    18 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $4,047
  35. 35

    Memorial Healthcare System, Inc

    Chattanooga, TN

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $2,885
  36. 36

    North Knoxville Medical Center

    Powell, TN

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  37. 37

    Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

    12 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $3,756
  38. 38

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City

    Union City, TN

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  39. 39

    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton

    Covington, TN

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    Dekalb Community Hospital

    Smithville, TN

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  42. 42

    Ascension Saint Thomas River Park

    Mcminnville, TN

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  43. 43

    Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Chattanooga, TN

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  44. 44

    TriStar Centennial Medical Center

    Nashville, TN

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  45. 45

    Parkwest Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

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  46. 46

    Affiliate of Vitruvian Health

    Cleveland, TN

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  47. 47
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  48. 48

    Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center

    Hendersonville, TN

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  56. 56

    Erlanger Medical Center

    Chattanooga, TN

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  57. 57
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