Pneumonia Cost in Connecticut — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for simple pneumonia and pleurisy with complications — one of the most common medical admissions.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for pneumonia. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Inpatient room and respiratory monitoring
- IV antibiotics and oxygen therapy
- Chest imaging, blood cultures, and routine labs
- Respiratory treatments (nebulizers, etc.) during the stay
Usually billed separately
- Hospitalist and infectious-disease consultant professional fees
- Pulmonologist consultation if required
- Outpatient antibiotics after discharge
- Follow-up chest imaging
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does pneumonia 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:
Pneumonia Mortality (30-day)
How often patients hospitalized for pneumonia survive 30 days. The headline pneumonia outcome.
Pneumonia Readmissions
Strong discharge planning, the right outpatient antibiotic, and follow-up reduce returns to the hospital.
Sepsis Care Bundle
Severe pneumonia can become sepsis. Hospitals with strong sepsis-bundle compliance catch and treat it early.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For pneumonia, 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.
- For patients with weakened immunity (chemotherapy, transplant, HIV), a hospital with infectious-disease specialists on staff may handle complex cases better.
- For severe pneumonia that may require ICU care, a hospital with a closed-staffed ICU is generally better equipped.
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:
- Will any of my physicians be out-of-network?
- What outpatient antibiotic is prescribed, and is it covered?
- When is the follow-up chest X-ray, and where will it be done?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital
Torrington, CT
Gross charge $25,293 - 2
Bridgeport Hospital
Bridgeport, CT
Gross charge $27,325Cash pay $13,936 - 3
Greenwich Hospital
Greenwich, CT
Gross charge $27,588Cash pay $14,346 - 4
Lawrence + Memorial Hospital (Acute Care)
New London, CT
Gross charge $27,588Cash pay $9,932 - 5
Windham Community Memorial Hospital
Willimantic, CT
Gross charge $29,125 - 6
Saint Francis Hospital
Hartford, CT
Gross charge $30,067Cash pay $16,537 - 7
Johnson Memorial Hospital
Stafford Springs, CT
Gross charge $30,067Cash pay $16,537 - 8
Saint Mary's Hospital
Waterbury, CT
Gross charge $30,067Cash pay $16,537 - 9
Yale New Haven Hospital (Acute Care — New Haven)
New Haven, CT
Gross charge $30,858Cash pay $18,206 - 10
Midstate Medical Center
Meriden, CT
Gross charge $31,674 - 11
The Hospital of Central Connecticut
New Britain, CT
Gross charge $32,474 - 12
William W Backus Hospital
Norwich, CT
Gross charge $34,124 - 13
Hartford Hospital
Hartford, CT
Gross charge $35,244 - 14
St Vincent's Medical Center (Acute Care)
Bridgeport, CT
Gross charge $41,090 - 15
Bristol Hospital
Bristol, CT
Gross charge — - 16
John Dempsey Hospital of the University of Connecticut
Farmington, CT
Gross charge — - 17
Middlesex Hospital
Middletown, CT
Gross charge —
14 Connecticut hospitals publish gross charges for pneumonia (DRG 194). Prices range from $25,293 to $41,090 — roughly $15,796 apart. The cheapest is Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington; the most expensive is St Vincent's Medical Center (Acute Care) in Bridgeport. The state average sits at $30,899.
These numbers are list prices — what the hospital bills before any insurance adjustment. 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 pneumonia at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent pneumonia admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
9 of the 14 ranked hospitals are teaching hospitals — academic medical centers that train medical residents. They tend to take higher-acuity patients than community hospitals, which often pushes both their CMS star ratings down and their gross charges up. For complex or rare presentations a teaching hospital may genuinely be the better clinical choice even at the higher price. For a routine case, a high-rated community hospital can deliver equivalent outcomes for less.