Heart Attack Cost in Washington — 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
Lake Chelan Health Hospital
Chelan, WA
Gross charge $6,887 - 2
Jefferson Healthcare
Port Townsend, WA
Gross charge $10,596Cash pay $8,477 - 3
Kittitas Valley Healthcare
Ellensburg, WA
Gross charge $15,100Cash pay $12,835 - 4
Othello Community Hospital
Othello, WA
Gross charge $19,405Cash pay $14,554 - 5
Island Hospital
Anacortes, WA
Gross charge $21,306 - 6
Trios Health Southridge Hospital
Kennewick, WA
Gross charge $41,939Cash pay $16,776 - 7
Valley Medical Center
Renton, WA
Gross charge $45,325Cash pay $31,728 - 8
Providence St. Mary Medical Center (Acute Care)
Walla Walla, WA
Gross charge — - 9
Virginia Mason Medical Center
Seattle, WA
Gross charge — - 10
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Everett, WA
Gross charge — - 11
MultiCare Auburn Medical Center (Acute Care)
Auburn, WA
Gross charge — - 12
Providence Centralia Hospital (Acute Care)
Centralia, WA
Gross charge — - 13
St. Clare Hospital
Lakewood, WA
Gross charge — - 14
Providence St. Peter Hospital
Olympia, WA
Gross charge — - 15
Swedish Medical Center / Cherry Hill
Seattle, WA
Gross charge — - 16
Swedish Edmonds Campus
Edmonds, WA
Gross charge — - 17
Swedish Medical Center (Acute Care)
Seattle, WA
Gross charge — - 18
MultiCare Yakima Memorial Hospital
Yakima, WA
Gross charge — - 19
Deaconess Medical Center
Spokane, WA
Gross charge — - 20
Prov Sacred Hrt Medical Center & Childs Hospital
Spokane, WA
Gross charge — - 21
Kadlec Regional Medical Center
Richland, WA
Gross charge — - 22
Providence Holy Family Hospital
Spokane, WA
Gross charge — - 23
MultiCare Good Samaritan Hospital (Acute Care)
Puyallup, WA
Gross charge — - 24
St. Joseph Medical Center (Acute Care)
Tacoma, WA
Gross charge — - 25
Multicare Valley Hospital
Spokane Valley, WA
Gross charge — - 26
MultiCare Allenmore Hospital
Tacoma, WA
Gross charge — - 27
St. Francis Hospital
Federal Way, WA
Gross charge — - 28
St. Anthony Hospital
Gig Harbor, WA
Gross charge — - 29
Swedish Issaquah Campus
Issaquah, WA
Gross charge — - 30
MultiCare Covington Medical Center
Covington, WA
Gross charge — - 31
Providence St. Joseph's Hospital
Chewelah, WA
Gross charge — - 32
Providence Mount Carmel Hospital
Colville, WA
Gross charge — - 33
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Enumclaw, WA
Gross charge —
7 Washington hospitals list a gross charge for heart attack under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $6,887 to $45,325. The cheapest is Lake Chelan Health Hospital in Chelan; the most expensive is Valley Medical Center in Renton. The state average sits at $22,937.
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 Washington, 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. Washington 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.