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.
Data notes for Alabama
- The lowest published charge ($4,023 at Monroe County Hospital) 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
Monroe County Hospital
Monroeville, AL
Gross charge $4,023Cash pay $1,609 - 2
Clay County Hospital
Ashland, AL
Gross charge $7,963 - 3
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $14,745Cash pay $13,270 - 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
Athens Limestone Hospital
Athens, AL
Gross charge $48,386 - 9
Decatur Morgan Hospital - Decatur Campus
Decatur, AL
Gross charge $48,386 - 10
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $48,386 - 11
Jackson Hospital
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge $128,477Cash pay $24,411 - 12
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 13
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 14
UAB Callahan Eye Hospital Authority
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 15
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 16
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 17
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 20
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $14,771 - 21
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 23
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 26
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 27
USA Health Providence Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 28
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Baptist Health Princeton Hospital
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 33
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 34
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge — - 35
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 36
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 37
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 38
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 39
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 40
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge — - 41
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price substance use (Medicare DRG 896) anywhere from $4,023 to $128,477 — a $124,454 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Monroe County Hospital in Monroeville; the most expensive is Jackson Hospital in Montgomery. The state average sits at $40,603.
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.