Stroke Cost in Arkansas — Compare All Hospitals
A stroke caused by a blocked blood vessel or bleeding in the brain, accompanied by other serious medical problems. Care involves rapid brain imaging, close monitoring in a stroke or intensive care unit, and early rehabilitation once the patient is stable.
State average
$52,959
gross charge · DRG 064
Hospitals
9
with published pricing
Price range
$4,916 – $172,294
low to high
Data notes for Arkansas
- The lowest published charge ($4,916 at Magnolia Regional Medical Center) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Magnolia Regional Medical Center
Magnolia, AR
Gross charge $4,916Cash pay $2,950 - 2
Chambers Memorial Hospital
Danville, AR
Gross charge $11,723Cash pay $5,862 - 3
Baxter Health
Mountain Home, AR
Gross charge $17,953Cash pay $12,567Medicare pays (avg) $11,076 - 4Gross charge $19,181Cash pay $11,509
- 5
Forrest City Medical Center
Forrest City, AR
Gross charge $28,587Cash pay $17,152 - 6
Conway Regional Medical Center, Inc
Conway, AR
Gross charge $58,096Cash pay $15,105Medicare pays (avg) $11,718 - 7
Saline Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Benton, AR
Gross charge $75,310Cash pay $22,593 - 8
St Marys Regional Medical Center
Russellville, AR
Gross charge $88,574Cash pay $26,572 - 9
National Park Medical Center (Acute Care)
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge $172,294Cash pay $51,688 - 10
CHI St. Vincent Infirmary
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,787 - 11
Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,211 - 12
Ouachita County Medical Center
Camden, AR
Gross charge — - 13
NEA Baptist Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Jonesboro, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,530 - 14
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Llc
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge — - 15
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Crittenden
West Memphis, AR
Gross charge — - 16
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Walnut Ridge, AR
Gross charge — - 17
CHI St. Vincent Morrilton
Morrilton, AR
Gross charge — - 18
Unity Health-White County Medical Center
Searcy, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,552 - 19
University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
Little Rock, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $15,037 - 20
Great River Medical Center
Blytheville, AR
Gross charge — - 21
Jefferson Regional
Pine Bluff, AR
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,659
Arkansas hospitals price stroke (Medicare DRG 064) anywhere from $4,916 to $172,294 — a $167,378 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Magnolia Regional Medical Center in Magnolia; the most expensive is National Park Medical Center (Acute Care) in Hot Springs. The state average sits at $52,959.
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. Arkansas hospitals missing from the list either don't perform stroke in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 064 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.