Heart Attack Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with complications — discharged alive.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for heart attack. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Emergency department evaluation and cardiac workup
- Inpatient cardiac monitoring (often in a coronary care unit)
- Diagnostic catheterization and any required stenting
- Inpatient medications and routine labs during admission
Usually billed separately
- Cardiologist, ED physician, and any interventional specialist professional fees
- Ambulance transport
- Outpatient cardiac rehab and follow-up visits after discharge
- Long-term medications (antiplatelets, statins, beta-blockers)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does heart attack best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Heart-Attack Mortality (30-day)
The single most important quality signal — how often patients survive 30 days after a heart attack at this hospital.
Time to Fibrinolysis (STEMI)
For ST-elevation heart attacks treated with clot-busting drugs, every minute counts. Tracks median minutes from arrival to treatment.
Heart-Attack Readmissions
Reflects discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and outpatient cardiology handoff.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For heart attack, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- Heart-attack admissions aren't shoppable in real time — in an emergency, the hospital that can get a patient to a cath lab fastest is typically the right call regardless of price.
- This page is more useful after discharge to evaluate where care was delivered, or ahead of time for chronic-condition planning.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- During an active heart attack: skip this list and call 911 — go to the nearest hospital with a cardiac cath lab.
- After discharge: was every physician who treated me in-network? (ED, cardiologist, interventionalist, hospitalist often bill separately.)
- What outpatient cardiac rehab program is recommended? Is it covered?
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($2,159 at Washington County Hospital and Clinics) 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
Washington County Hospital and Clinics
Washington, IA
Gross charge $2,159Cash pay $1,619 - 2
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $4,372Cash pay $2,536 - 3
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $4,822 - 4
Cherokee Regional Medical Center
Cherokee, IA
Gross charge $6,669Cash pay $5,335 - 5
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $6,946Cash pay $4,862 - 6
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge $7,506Cash pay $6,005 - 7
Audubon County Memorial Hospital
Audubon, IA
Gross charge $8,498 - 8
Mahaska Health
Oskaloosa, IA
Gross charge $9,871Cash pay $8,390 - 9
Boone County Hospital
Boone, IA
Gross charge $11,292Cash pay $9,034 - 10
MercyOne Newton Medical Center
Newton, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 11
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center
Davenport, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 12
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mason City, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 13
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 14
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (Acute Care)
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 15
Mercyone Clinton Medical Center
Clinton, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 16
Mercyone Siouxland Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 17
Hancock County Health System
Britt, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 18
Franklin General Hospital
Hampton, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 19
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center
Dewitt, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 20
MercyOne Elkader Medical Center
Elkader, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 21
MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center
New Hampton, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 22
MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center
Oelwein, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 23
Mercyone Centerville Medical Center
Centerville, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 24
MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center
Dyersville, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 25
Hansen Family Hospital
Iowa Falls, IA
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 26
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Belmond
Belmond, IA
Gross charge $18,100Cash pay $10,860 - 27
Floyd County Medical Center
Charles City, IA
Gross charge $20,958Cash pay $8,383 - 28
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $21,852Cash pay $13,111 - 29
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $22,019Cash pay $19,817 - 30
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $22,564Cash pay $15,795 - 31
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $38,699Cash pay $15,480 - 32
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $39,533 - 33
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 34
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 35
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 36
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 37
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 38
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 39
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 40
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 41
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 42
St Lukes Regional Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge — - 43
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 44
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 45
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 46Gross charge —
- 47
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 48
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 49
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 50
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 281) anywhere from $2,159 to $39,533 — a $37,374 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Washington County Hospital and Clinics in Washington; the most expensive is St Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. The state average sits at $14,190.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 heart attack at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling heart attack in Iowa, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Iowa hospitals missing from the list either don't perform heart attack in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 281 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.