Heart Attack Cost in Illinois — 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 Illinois
- The lowest published charge ($679 at Thorek Memorial 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
Thorek Memorial Hospital
Chicago, IL
Gross charge $679 - 2
Hillsboro Area Hospital
Hillsboro, IL
Gross charge $4,736Cash pay $3,789 - 3
Hammond Henry Hospital
Geneseo, IL
Gross charge $9,657Cash pay $8,691 - 4
MercyOne Genesis Aledo Medical Center
Aledo, IL
Gross charge $13,014Cash pay $8,459 - 5
Roseland Community Hospital
Chicago, IL
Gross charge $26,199Cash pay $181,556 - 6Gross charge $38,224Cash pay $24,845
- 7
Swedish Hospital
Chicago, IL
Gross charge $38,224Cash pay $24,845 - 8
Copley Memorial Hospital
Aurora, IL
Gross charge $39,032Cash pay $19,516 - 9
University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics
Chicago, IL
Gross charge $41,157Cash pay $28,810 - 10
Memorial Hospital (Chester)
Chester, IL
Gross charge $42,266Cash pay $25,359 - 11
UW Health SwedishAmerican Hospital
Rockford, IL
Gross charge $42,932 - 12
SBL Fayette County Hospital
Vandalia, IL
Gross charge $42,988 - 13
Alton Memorial Hospital
Alton, IL
Gross charge $43,303Cash pay $25,982 - 14
Memorial Hospital Belleville
Belleville, IL
Gross charge $43,303Cash pay $25,982 - 15
Memorial Hospital (Carthage)
Carthage, IL
Gross charge $43,303Cash pay $25,982 - 16
Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers
Morris, IL
Gross charge $44,775Cash pay $12,125 - 17
Mercyhealth Hospital & Physician Clinic - Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake, IL
Gross charge $54,555Cash pay $35,461 - 18
Harvard hospital
Harvard, IL
Gross charge $54,555Cash pay $35,461 - 19
Vista Medical Center East
Waukegan, IL
Gross charge $89,084 - 20
Saint Joseph Medical Center - Joliet
Joliet, IL
Gross charge — - 21
Carle Health Proctor Hospital (Acute Care)
Peoria, IL
Gross charge — - 22
Blessing Hospital (Acute Care)
Quincy, IL
Gross charge — - 23
Advocate Sherman Hospital
Elgin, IL
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- 25
Advocate Trinity Hospital
Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 26
West Suburban Medical Center
Oak Park, IL
Gross charge — - 27
Saint Francis Hospital
Evanston, IL
Gross charge — - 28
Louis a Weiss Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 29
Carle Foundation Hospital (Acute Care)
Urbana, IL
Gross charge — - 30
Resurrection Medical Center
Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 31
Carle Health Pekin Hospital
Pekin, IL
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —
- 33
St. Mary's Hospital - Kankakee
Kankakee, IL
Gross charge — - 34
Mercy Medical Center
Aurora, IL
Gross charge — - 35Gross charge —
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- 37
Heartland Regional Medical Center
Marion, IL
Gross charge — - 38
Methodist Hospital of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 39
Advocate Condell Medical Center
Libertyville, IL
Gross charge — - 40
Advocate Christ Medical Center (Acute Care)
Oak Lawn, IL
Gross charge — - 41
Carle Health Methodist Hospital
Peoria, IL
Gross charge — - 42
Saint Joseph Hospital - Elgin
Elgin, IL
Gross charge — - 43
Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Acute Care)
Park Ridge, IL
Gross charge — - 44
Ascension Saint Joseph - Chicago
Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 45
Ascension Alexian Brothers
Elk Grove Village, IL
Gross charge — - 46
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Rock Island Hospital
Rock Island, IL
Gross charge — - 47
Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital
Downers Grove, IL
Gross charge — - 48
St Alexius Medical Center
Hoffman Estates, IL
Gross charge — - 49
Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital
Barrington, IL
Gross charge — - 50
Deaconess Illinois Crossroads - Emergency Department
Mount Vernon, IL
Gross charge — - 51
North Chicago VA Medical Center
North Chicago, IL
Gross charge — - 52
Carle Eureka Emergency Department
Eureka, IL
Gross charge — - 53
Carle Hoopeston Regional Health Center
Hoopeston, IL
Gross charge — - 54
Red Bud Regional Hospital
Red Bud, IL
Gross charge — - 55
Carle Richland Memorial Hospital
Olney, IL
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19 Illinois hospitals list a gross charge for heart attack under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $679 to $89,084. The cheapest is Thorek Memorial Hospital in Chicago; the most expensive is Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan. The state average sits at $37,473.
What's listed is each hospital's gross charge — its published price for the inpatient stay, before any insurance discount. 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 Illinois, 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. Illinois 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.