Heart Attack Cost in Pennsylvania — 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
- 1
Conemaugh Nason Medical Center
Roaring Spring, PA
Gross charge $25,612Cash pay $10,245 - 2
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center - Main Campus
Johnstown, PA
Gross charge $25,612Cash pay $10,245 - 3
Conemaugh Meyersdale Medical Center
Meyersdale, PA
Gross charge $25,612Cash pay $10,245 - 4
Conemaugh Miners Medical Center
Hastings, PA
Gross charge $25,612Cash pay $10,245 - 5
St. Clair Hospital
Pittsburgh, PA
Gross charge $28,208Cash pay $6,661 - 6
Wayne Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
Honesdale, PA
Gross charge $32,721Cash pay $26,177 - 7
Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital (Acute Care)
Darby, PA
Gross charge $33,909Cash pay $22,041 - 8
Nazareth Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge $33,909Cash pay $22,041 - 9
St. Mary Medical Center
Langhorne, PA
Gross charge $33,909Cash pay $22,041 - 10
Chestnut Hill Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge $73,619Cash pay $8,935 - 11
Geisinger-Community Medical Center
Scranton, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 12
Geisinger-Bloomsburg Hospital
Bloomsburg, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 13
Geisinger Medical Center
Danville, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 14
Geisinger-Lewistown Hospital
Lewistown, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 15
Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center
Wilkes Barre, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 16
Geisinger Medical Center Muncy
Muncy, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 17
Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital
Jersey Shore, PA
Gross charge $74,036Cash pay $45,902 - 18
Temple University Hospital - Main Campus
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge $99,741Cash pay $10,585 - 19
Jefferson Lansdale Hospital
Lansdale, PA
Gross charge — - 20
St Luke's Hospital - Upper Bucks Campus
Quakertown, PA
Gross charge — - 21
Wellspan York Hospital
York, PA
Gross charge — - 22
St Lukes Hospital Bethlehem
Bethlehem, PA
Gross charge — - 23
St. Luke's Grand View Hospital - Sellersville
Sellersville, PA
Gross charge — - 24
WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital
Gettysburg, PA
Gross charge — - 25
WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital
Lebanon, PA
Gross charge — - 26
Holy Redeemer Hospital and Medical Center
Meadowbrook, PA
Gross charge — - 27
Meadville Medical Center (Acute Care)
Meadville, PA
Gross charge — - 28
Jefferson Health- Northeast
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge — - 29
Wellspan Waynesboro Hospital
Waynesboro, PA
Gross charge — - 30
Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge —Cash pay $12,833 - 31
WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital
Chambersburg, PA
Gross charge — - 32
St. Luke's Hospital - Easton Campus
Easton, PA
Gross charge — - 33
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Gross charge — - 34
Crozer Chester Medical Center
Upland, PA
Gross charge — - 35
St. Luke's Hospital - Miners Campus
Coaldale, PA
Gross charge — - 36
WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital
Ephrata, PA
Gross charge — - 37
Jefferson Abington Hospital
Abington, PA
Gross charge — - 38
Surgical Institute of Reading
Wyomissing, PA
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,934 - 39
St. Luke's Hospital - Anderson Campus
Easton, PA
Gross charge — - 40Gross charge —
- 41
Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital
East Norriton, PA
Gross charge —Cash pay $12,833 - 42
St. Luke's Hospital - Monroe Campus
Stroudsburg, PA
Gross charge — - 43
Geisinger St. Luke's Hospital
Orwigsburg, PA
Gross charge — - 44
St. Luke's Hospital - Carbon Campus
Lehighton, PA
Gross charge — - 45
Titusville Area Hospital
Titusville, PA
Gross charge —
18 Pennsylvania hospitals publish gross charges for heart attack (DRG 281). Prices range from $25,612 to $99,741 — roughly $74,128 apart. The cheapest is Conemaugh Nason Medical Center in Roaring Spring; the most expensive is Temple University Hospital - Main Campus in Philadelphia. The state average sits at $53,151.
The number you see is each hospital's published "list price" — the gross charge for the facility component of heart attack. 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 Pennsylvania, 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. Pennsylvania 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.