Substance Use Cost in Massachusetts — 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
$37,780
gross charge · DRG 896
Hospitals
14
with published pricing
Price range
$15,192 – $66,830
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Lowell General Hospital
Lowell, MA
Gross charge $15,192Cash pay $10,634 - 2
MelroseWakefield Hospital
Melrose, MA
Gross charge $15,192Cash pay $10,634 - 3
Tufts Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge $15,192Cash pay $10,634 - 4
Cambridge Health Alliance
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge $19,879 - 5
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Northampton, MA
Gross charge $23,299Cash pay $17,474 - 6
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton, MA
Gross charge $27,827Cash pay $20,870Medicare pays (avg) $14,479 - 7
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River, MA
Gross charge $39,138Cash pay $13,654Medicare pays (avg) $13,783 - 8
Umass Memorial Healthalliance Hospitals
Leominster, MA
Gross charge $42,149 - 9
Umass Memorial Health - Harrington Hospital
Southbridge, MA
Gross charge $42,149 - 10
Umass Memorial Medical Center/University Campus
Worcester, MA
Gross charge $42,149Medicare pays (avg) $22,226 - 11
Mercy Medical Center
Springfield, MA
Gross charge $46,380Cash pay $25,509 - 12
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $66,712Cash pay $50,034Medicare pays (avg) $18,585 - 13
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge $66,830Cash pay $50,123 - 14
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
Jamaica Plain, MA
Gross charge $66,830Cash pay $50,123Medicare pays (avg) $14,554 - 15
Saint Anne's Hospital
Fall River, MA
Gross charge — - 16
Holyoke Medical Center
Holyoke, MA
Gross charge — - 17
Berkshire Medical Center (Acute Care)
Pittsfield, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $17,395 - 18
Heywood Hospital
Gardner, MA
Gross charge — - 19
Athol Hospital
Athol, MA
Gross charge — - 20
Mount Auburn Hospital
Cambridge, MA
Gross charge — - 21
Baystate Franklin Medical Center
Greenfield, MA
Gross charge — - 22
Anna Jaques Hospital
Newburyport, MA
Gross charge — - 23
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Needham
Needham, MA
Gross charge — - 24
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 25
New England Baptist Hospital
Boston, MA
Gross charge — - 26
Winchester Hospital
Winchester, MA
Gross charge — - 27
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton
Milton, MA
Gross charge — - 28
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington
Burlington, MA
Gross charge — - 29
Fairview Hospital
Great Barrington, MA
Gross charge — - 30
Falmouth Hospital
Falmouth, MA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,394
14 Massachusetts hospitals publish gross charges for substance use (DRG 896). Prices range from $15,192 to $66,830 — roughly $51,638 apart. The cheapest is Lowell General Hospital in Lowell; the most expensive is Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital in Jamaica Plain. The state average sits at $37,780.
These numbers are list prices — what the hospital bills before any insurance adjustment. 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. Massachusetts 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.