Viral Illness Cost in Alabama — Compare All Hospitals
An illness caused by a virus, such as a severe flu-like infection, that needs inpatient care. Treatment usually involves fluids, medication to ease symptoms, and monitoring until the illness improves.
State average
$24,789
gross charge · DRG 866
Hospitals
8
with published pricing
Price range
$8,949 – $50,297
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Thomas Hospital (Acute Care)
Fairhope, AL
Gross charge $8,949 - 2
Mizell Memorial Hospital
Opp, AL
Gross charge $9,352Cash pay $8,417 - 3
Bibb Medical Center
Centreville, AL
Gross charge $11,168 - 4
Helen Keller Hospital
Sheffield, AL
Gross charge $15,071 - 5
Red Bay Hospital
Red Bay, AL
Gross charge $15,071 - 6
Medical West, an Affiliate of UAB Health System
Bessemer, AL
Gross charge $38,106Cash pay $9,527 - 7
North Alabama Medical Center
Florence, AL
Gross charge $50,297Cash pay $17,604 - 8
North Alabama Shoals Hospital
Muscle Shoals, AL
Gross charge $50,297Cash pay $17,604 - 9
Southeast Health Medical Center
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 10
St. Vincent's East
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 11
Baptist Medical Center South
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 12
East Alabama Medical Center
Opelika, AL
Gross charge — - 13
Cullman Regional Medical Center
Cullman, AL
Gross charge — - 14
Gadsden Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge — - 15
Riverview Regional Medical Center
Gadsden, AL
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,689 - 16
Medical Center Enterprise
Enterprise, AL
Gross charge — - 17
Flowers Hospital
Dothan, AL
Gross charge — - 18
Russell Medical
Alexander City, AL
Gross charge — - 19
Baldwin Health
Foley, AL
Gross charge — - 20
USA Health University Hospital
Mobile, AL
Gross charge — - 21
DCH Regional Medical Center
Tuscaloosa, AL
Gross charge — - 22
Hale County Hospital
Greensboro, AL
Gross charge — - 23
Grandview Medical Center (Acute Care)
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 24
Whitfield Regional Hospital
Demopolis, AL
Gross charge — - 25
Hill Hospital of Sumter County
York, AL
Gross charge — - 26
Russellville Hospital
Russellville, AL
Gross charge — - 27
UAB St. Vincent’s Chilton
Clanton, AL
Gross charge — - 28
UAB St. Vincent’s Blount
Oneonta, AL
Gross charge — - 29
Huntsville Hospital
Huntsville, AL
Gross charge — - 30
Regional Medical Center
Anniston, AL
Gross charge — - 31
Fayette Medical Center
Fayette, AL
Gross charge — - 32
Prattville Baptist Hospital
Prattville, AL
Gross charge — - 33
Baptist Medical Center East
Montgomery, AL
Gross charge — - 34
UAB St. Vincent’s Birmingham
Birmingham, AL
Gross charge — - 35
UAB St. Vincent’s St. Clair
Pell City, AL
Gross charge —
Alabama hospitals price viral illness (Medicare DRG 866) anywhere from $8,949 to $50,297 — a $41,348 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Thomas Hospital (Acute Care) in Fairhope; the most expensive is North Alabama Shoals Hospital in Muscle Shoals. The state average sits at $24,789.
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 viral illness 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 viral illness 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 viral illness in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 866 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.