Heart Attack Cost in Wisconsin — 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
Amery Hospital & Clinic
Amery, WI
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 2
Hudson Hospital
Hudson, WI
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 3
Westfields Hospital and Clinic
New Richmond, WI
Gross charge $6,823Cash pay $3,558 - 4
Crossing Rivers Health
Prairie Du Chien, WI
Gross charge $10,155 - 5
Tomah Memorial Hospital
Tomah, WI
Gross charge $14,100Cash pay $8,107 - 6
Grant Regional Health Center
Lancaster, WI
Gross charge $14,601Cash pay $9,491 - 7
Stoughton Health
Stoughton, WI
Gross charge $18,859Cash pay $10,372 - 8
Mayo Clinic Health System - La Crosse
La Crosse, WI
Gross charge — - 9
Ascension NE Wisconsin - St. Elizabeth Hospital
Appleton, WI
Gross charge — - 10
Marshfield Medical Center - Rice Lake
Rice Lake, WI
Gross charge — - 11
Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital
Rhinelander, WI
Gross charge — - 12
Aurora Medical Center Manitowoc County
Two Rivers, WI
Gross charge — - 13
Aurora Medical Center Sheboygan County
Sheboygan, WI
Gross charge — - 14
Marshfield Medical Center - Marshfield
Marshfield, WI
Gross charge — - 15
Aurora Medical Center Washington County
Hartford, WI
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Aurora Medical Center Burlington
Burlington, WI
Gross charge — - 18
Froedtert West Bend Hospital
West Bend, WI
Gross charge — - 19
Mercy Health System Corp
Janesville, WI
Gross charge — - 20
Fort Memorial Hospital
Fort Atkinson, WI
Gross charge — - 21
Ascension St. Francis Hospital
Milwaukee, WI
Gross charge — - 22
Unitypoint Health - Meriter
Madison, WI
Gross charge — - 23
Sauk Prairie Hospital
Prairie Du Sac, WI
Gross charge — - 24Gross charge —
- 25
Aurora Lakeland Medical Center
Elkhorn, WI
Gross charge — - 26
Froedtert Holy Family Memorial Hospital
Manitowoc, WI
Gross charge — - 27
Mile Bluff Medical Center
Mauston, WI
Gross charge — - 28
Aurora Medical Center Bay Area
Marinette, WI
Gross charge — - 29
Ascension SE Wisconsin Hospital
Milwaukee, WI
Gross charge — - 30
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center
Milwaukee, WI
Gross charge — - 31
Aurora West Allis Medical Center
West Allis, WI
Gross charge — - 32
Froedtert Hospital
Milwaukee, WI
Gross charge — - 33
Aurora Medical Center - Kenosha
Kenosha, WI
Gross charge — - 34
Aurora Baycare Medical Center
Green Bay, WI
Gross charge — - 35
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin
Glendale, WI
Gross charge — - 36
Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh
Oshkosh, WI
Gross charge — - 37
Marshfield Medical Center-Weston
Weston, WI
Gross charge — - 38
Midwest Orthopedic Specialty Hospital
Franklin, WI
Gross charge — - 39
Aurora Medical Center Summit
Summit, WI
Gross charge — - 40
Aurora Medical Center Grafton
Grafton, WI
Gross charge — - 41
Marshfield Medical Center - Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI
Gross charge — - 42
Marshfield Medical Center - Minocqua
Minocqua, WI
Gross charge — - 43
Froedtert Community Hospital - New Berlin
New Berlin, WI
Gross charge — - 44
Ascension Wisconsin Hospital - Menomonee Falls
Menomonee Falls, WI
Gross charge — - 45
Marshfield Medical Center - Stevens Point Campus
Stevens Point, WI
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- 48
Ascension Calumet Hospital
Chilton, WI
Gross charge — - 49
Marshfield Medical Center - Neillsville
Neillsville, WI
Gross charge — - 50
Flambeau Hospital
Park Falls, WI
Gross charge — - 51
Marshfield Medical Center - Ladysmith
Ladysmith, WI
Gross charge — - 52
Essentia Health St. Mary's Hospital-Superior
Superior, WI
Gross charge — - 53
Richland Hospital
Richland Center, WI
Gross charge — - 54
Western Wisconsin Health
Baldwin, WI
Gross charge — - 55
Upland Hills Health Hospital & Clinics
Dodgeville, WI
Gross charge — - 56
Southwest Health Center
Platteville, WI
Gross charge —
7 Wisconsin hospitals publish gross charges for heart attack (DRG 281). Prices range from $6,823 to $18,859 — roughly $12,036 apart. The cheapest is Amery Hospital & Clinic in Amery; the most expensive is Stoughton Health in Stoughton. The state average sits at $11,169.
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 Wisconsin, 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. Wisconsin 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.