Pneumonia Cost in Mississippi — 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
Winston Medical Center
Louisville, MS
Gross charge $11,042Cash pay $8,634 - 2
Wayne General Hospital
Waynesboro, MS
Gross charge $14,307 - 3
South Central Reg Medical Center
Laurel, MS
Gross charge $14,529Cash pay $6,102 - 4
South Sunflower County Hospital
Indianola, MS
Gross charge $16,445Cash pay $1,029,394 - 5
George Regional Health System
Lucedale, MS
Gross charge $16,602Cash pay $10,791 - 6
Southwest Ms Regional Medical Center
Mccomb, MS
Gross charge $17,650Cash pay $10,590 - 7
Lawrence County Hospital
Monticello, MS
Gross charge $17,650Cash pay $10,590 - 8
Simpson General Hospital
Mendenhall, MS
Gross charge $21,298Cash pay $14,908 - 9
North Sunflower Medical Center
Ruleville, MS
Gross charge $22,023Cash pay $11,012 - 10
Magee General Hospital
Magee, MS
Gross charge $24,091Cash pay $8,360 - 11
Greenwood Leflore Hospital
Greenwood, MS
Gross charge $28,100Cash pay $22,480 - 12
Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch Hospital
Olive Branch, MS
Gross charge $30,050Cash pay $6,611 - 13
Baptist Memorial Hospital Union County
New Albany, MS
Gross charge — - 14
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
Gulfport, MS
Gross charge — - 15Gross charge —
- 16
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Booneville
Booneville, MS
Gross charge — - 17
Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center- South
Meridian, MS
Gross charge — - 18
Bmh-Golden Triangle
Columbus, MS
Gross charge — - 19
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Gross charge — - 20
Baptist Anderson Regional Medical Center
Meridian, MS
Gross charge — - 21
Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto
Southaven, MS
Gross charge — - 22
Baptist Medical Center-Yazoo
Yazoo City, MS
Gross charge — - 23
Baptist Medical Center Leake
Carthage, MS
Gross charge — - 24
Bmh-Calhoun
Calhoun City, MS
Gross charge — - 25
Baptist Medical Center Attala
Kosciusko, MS
Gross charge —
12 Mississippi hospitals publish gross charges for pneumonia (DRG 194). Prices range from $11,042 to $30,050 — roughly $19,008 apart. The cheapest is Winston Medical Center in Louisville; the most expensive is Methodist Healthcare - Olive Branch Hospital in Olive Branch. The state average sits at $19,482.
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.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Mississippi hospitals missing from the list either don't perform pneumonia in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 194 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.