Heart Attack Cost in Michigan — 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?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
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McLaren Bay Region
Bay City, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 2
Mclaren Central Michigan
Mount Pleasant, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 3
Mclaren Northern Michigan (Acute Care)
Petoskey, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 4
Mclaren Flint
Flint, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 5
McLaren Greater Lansing
Lansing, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 6
McLaren Lapeer Region
Lapeer, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 7
McLaren Oakland
Pontiac, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 8
Mclaren Port Huron
Port Huron, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 9
Mclaren Macomb (Acute Care)
Mount Clemens, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 10
Karmanos Cancer Center
Detroit, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 11
McLaren Caro Region
Caro, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 12
McLaren Thumb Region
Bad Axe, MI
Gross charge $18,545Cash pay $9,273 - 13
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Carson
Carson City, MI
Gross charge $31,840Cash pay $7,960 - 14
Edward W Sparrow Hospital
Lansing, MI
Gross charge $31,840Cash pay $7,960 - 15
Sparrow Clinton Hospital
Saint Johns, MI
Gross charge $31,840Cash pay $7,960 - 16
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Eaton
Charlotte, MI
Gross charge $31,840Cash pay $7,960 - 17
Sparrow Ionia Hospital
Ionia, MI
Gross charge $31,840Cash pay $7,960 - 18
University of Michigan Health-West
Wyoming, MI
Gross charge $127,856Cash pay $51,142 - 19
Ascension Providence Hospital - Southfield and Novi Campuses
Southfield, MI
Gross charge — - 20
MyMichigan Medical Center Alma
Alma, MI
Gross charge — - 21
Lake Huron Medical Center (Acute Care)
Port Huron, MI
Gross charge —Cash pay $9,203 - 22
MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena
Alpena, MI
Gross charge — - 23
Spectrum Health
Grand Rapids, MI
Gross charge — - 24
Covenant Medical Center
Saginaw, MI
Gross charge — - 25
Ascension St Mary's Hospital
Saginaw, MI
Gross charge — - 26
MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch
West Branch, MI
Gross charge — - 27
Tawas St Joseph Hospital
Tawas City, MI
Gross charge — - 28
Borgess Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kalamazoo, MI
Gross charge — - 29
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak
Royal Oak, MI
Gross charge — - 30
Henry Ford St. John Hospital
Detroit, MI
Gross charge — - 31
MyMichigan Medical Center Clare
Clare, MI
Gross charge — - 32
Henry Ford Hospital (Warren)
Warren, MI
Gross charge — - 33
Henry Ford Genesys Hospital
Grand Blanc, MI
Gross charge — - 34
MyMichigan Medical Center Midland
Midland, MI
Gross charge — - 35
Chippewa County War Memorial Hospital
Sault Ste Marie, MI
Gross charge — - 36
Ascension River District Hospital
East China, MI
Gross charge — - 37
Ascension Rochester main entrance
Rochester, MI
Gross charge — - 38
Allergy Clinic | Brighton Center for Specialty Care
Brighton, MI
Gross charge — - 39
Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital
Standish, MI
Gross charge — - 40
Ascension Borgess - Lee Hospital
Dowagiac, MI
Gross charge — - 41
MyMichigan Medical Center Gladwin
Gladwin, MI
Gross charge — - 42
Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital
Allegan, MI
Gross charge —
Michigan hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 281) anywhere from $18,545 to $127,856 — a $109,311 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is McLaren Bay Region in Bay City; the most expensive is University of Michigan Health-West in Wyoming. The state average sits at $28,311.
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 Michigan, 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. Michigan 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.