Stroke Cost in South Carolina — Compare All Hospitals
A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain. Hospital care includes brain imaging, close monitoring, and in some cases a clot-dissolving drug (tPA) given soon after symptoms start, followed by early rehabilitation planning.
State average
$38,480
gross charge · DRG 065
Hospitals
5
with published pricing
Price range
$21,088 – $43,112
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital
Murrells Inlet, SC
Gross charge $21,088Cash pay $13,707Medicare pays (avg) $5,869 - 2
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center
Hilton Head Island, SC
Gross charge $42,544Cash pay $21,272Medicare pays (avg) $8,236 - 3
Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center
Mount Pleasant, SC
Gross charge $42,544Cash pay $21,272 - 4
Cannon Memorial Hospital
Pickens, SC
Gross charge $43,112Cash pay $21,556 - 5
Anmed Health
Anderson, SC
Gross charge $43,112Cash pay $21,556Medicare pays (avg) $7,187 - 6
Mcleod Medical Center - Dillon
Dillon, SC
Gross charge — - 7
Colleton Medical Center (Acute Care)
Walterboro, SC
Gross charge — - 8
McLeod Regional Medical Center
Florence, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,167 - 9Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,286
- 10
Trident Medical Center (Acute Care)
Charleston, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,339 - 11
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center
Myrtle Beach, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,147 - 12
Roper Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Charleston, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,578 - 13
Coastal Carolina Hospital
Hardeeville, SC
Gross charge —Cash pay $36,900Medicare pays (avg) $4,857 - 14
Mount Pleasant Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Mount Pleasant, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,713 - 15
McLeod Health Loris
Loris, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,553 - 16
McLeod Health Cheraw
Cheraw, SC
Gross charge — - 17
Mcleod Health Clarendon
Manning, SC
Gross charge — - 18
Berkeley Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Summerville, SC
Gross charge — - 19
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center
Hartsville, SC
Gross charge —
South Carolina hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 065) anywhere from $21,088 to $43,112 — a $22,024 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet; the most expensive is Anmed Health in Anderson. The state average sits at $38,480.
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. South Carolina hospitals missing from the list either don't perform stroke in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 065 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.