Substance Use Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for alcohol or drug dependence, often to manage withdrawal, without a formal rehabilitation program during the stay. Care typically involves medications to ease withdrawal safely, monitoring, and treatment of related medical problems.
State average
$42,306
gross charge · DRG 896
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$7,963 – $128,477
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Clay County Hospital
Ashland, AL
Gross charge $7,963 - 2
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $14,745Cash pay $13,270 - 3
North Baldwin Infirmary
Bay Minette, AL
Gross charge $28,187Cash pay $14,373 - 4
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $31,681Cash pay $7,920 - 5
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $33,098Cash pay $11,584 - 6
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $33,098Cash pay $11,584 - 7
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $48,386 - 8
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $48,386 - 9
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $49,036Cash pay $9,253 - 10
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $128,477Cash pay $24,411 - 11
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 12
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 13
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 14
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 15
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 16
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 17
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $14,771 - 18
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 20
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 21
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 22
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 23
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 27
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 28
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 29
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 30
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 33
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 34
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 36
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 37
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price substance use (Medicare DRG 896) anywhere from $7,963 to $128,477 — a $120,514 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Clay County Hospital in Ashland; the most expensive is Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. The state average sits at $42,306.
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 substance use 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 substance use 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 substance use in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 896 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.