Substance Use Cost in Washington — 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
$34,005
gross charge · DRG 896
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$3,360 – $61,087
low to high
Data notes for Washington
- The lowest published charge ($3,360 at Jefferson Healthcare) 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
Jefferson Healthcare
Port Townsend, WA
Gross charge $3,360Cash pay $2,688 - 2
Pullman Regional Hospital
Pullman, WA
Gross charge $8,053Cash pay $6,845 - 3
Valley Medical Center
Renton, WA
Gross charge $39,896Cash pay $27,927 - 4
Island Hospital
Anacortes, WA
Gross charge $42,813 - 5
Trios Health Southridge Hospital
Kennewick, WA
Gross charge $48,820Cash pay $19,528 - 6
Kittitas Valley Healthcare
Ellensburg, WA
Gross charge $61,087Cash pay $51,924 - 7
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
Gross charge — - 8
MultiCare Auburn Medical Center (Acute Care)
Auburn, WA
Gross charge — - 9
St. Clare Hospital
Lakewood, WA
Gross charge — - 10
MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
Yakima, WA
Gross charge — - 11
Deaconess Medical Center
Spokane, WA
Gross charge — - 12
MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (Acute Care)
Puyallup, WA
Gross charge — - 13
St. Joseph Medical Center (Acute Care)
Tacoma, WA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $15,272 - 14
Multicare Valley Hospital
Spokane Valley, WA
Gross charge — - 15
MultiCare Allenmore Hospital
Tacoma, WA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,734 - 16
St. Francis Hospital
Federal Way, WA
Gross charge — - 17
St. Anthony Hospital
Gig Harbor, WA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,017 - 18
MultiCare Covington Medical Center
Covington, WA
Gross charge — - 19
Prosser Memorial Hospital
Prosser, WA
Gross charge — - 20
Lake Chelan Health Hospital
Chelan, WA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,077 - 21
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Enumclaw, WA
Gross charge — - 22
PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center
Longview, WA
Gross charge — - 23
PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center
Vancouver, WA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $14,033 - 24
Overlake Hospital Medical Center & Clinics
Bellevue, WA
Gross charge — - 25
Harborview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Seattle, WA
Gross charge — - 26
St. Michael Medical Center
Silverdale, WA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $17,699 - 27
MultiCare Capital Medical Center
Olympia, WA
Gross charge —
6 Washington hospitals list a gross charge for substance use under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $3,360 to $61,087. The cheapest is Jefferson Healthcare in Port Townsend; the most expensive is Kittitas Valley Healthcare in Ellensburg. The state average sits at $34,005.
What's published is the gross charge — the starting point, not what you'd actually owe. 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. Washington 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.