Vaginal Delivery Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
Vaginal delivery without sterilization, dilatation, or curettage — the most common inpatient procedure in the United States.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for vaginal delivery. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 1–2 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Labor and delivery room
- Nursing and routine medications during labor and recovery
- Postpartum mother and baby room
- Routine newborn care (Apgar, vitamin K, eye prophylaxis, hearing screen)
- Standard lab work for mother and baby
Usually billed separately
- Obstetrician, midwife, and any anesthesiologist (epidural) professional fees
- Neonatologist or pediatrician fees
- Lactation consultant (sometimes included, sometimes not)
- Postpartum follow-up visits
- Circumcision (often a separate facility fee)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does vaginal delivery 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:
Patient Experience (HCAHPS)
Communication during labor, nursing responsiveness, and discharge planning shape the whole birth experience.
Birthing-Friendly Hospital designation
CMS marks hospitals committed to evidence-based maternal care and support of physiologic birth.
C-Section Rate (NTSV)
For low-risk first-time mothers, an unusually high C-section rate may signal a hospital quick to escalate to surgical delivery.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For vaginal delivery, 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 high-risk pregnancies (multiples, prior C-section, preeclampsia, diabetes), a hospital with a Level III or IV NICU is generally the safer setting regardless of price.
- For a specific birth plan (water birth, midwife-led, doula support), matching the hospital's protocols and amenities is usually more important than the price gap.
- When an obstetrician only delivers at certain hospitals, provider continuity usually matters more than price differences across facilities.
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:
- Are both my obstetrician and the anesthesiologist (if I want an epidural) in-network?
- Is the pediatrician/neonatologist who will see my baby in-network?
- Is there a separate facility fee for the labor room versus the postpartum room?
- Does this estimate include a lactation consultant visit?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Highpoint Health-Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas
Gallatin, TN
Gross charge $10,614Cash pay $3,460 - 2
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Winchester
Winchester, TN
Gross charge $10,614Cash pay $3,460 - 3
Highpoint Health-Trousdale With Ascension Saint
Hartsville, TN
Gross charge $10,614Cash pay $3,460 - 4Gross charge $10,614Cash pay $3,460
- 5Gross charge $11,331Cash pay $3,320
- 6
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $12,776Cash pay $10,221 - 7
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg, TN
Gross charge $13,537Cash pay $3,371 - 8
University Health System, Inc
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge $15,007Cash pay $4,502 - 9
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $20,641Cash pay $12,653 - 10
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $23,727Cash pay $5,220 - 11
Starr Regional Medical Center Athens
Athens, TN
Gross charge $26,163Cash pay $5,128 - 12
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge — - 13
Cumberland Medical Center
Crossville, TN
Gross charge — - 14
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Roane Medical Center
Harriman, TN
Gross charge — - 16
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 17
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge — - 18
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge — - 19
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 20
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 21
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 22
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 23
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 24
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 25
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 26
Fort Loudoun Medical Center
Lenoir City, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 28
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 29
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 30Gross charge —
- 31
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 32
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 33
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 34
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 37
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 39
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price vaginal delivery (Medicare DRG 807) anywhere from $10,614 to $26,163 — a $15,549 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Highpoint Health-Sumner with Ascension Saint Thomas in Gallatin; the most expensive is Starr Regional Medical Center Athens in Athens. The state average sits at $15,058.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 vaginal delivery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
For vaginal delivery in Tennessee, the price below is each hospital's gross charge for the facility portion of delivery — your actual out-of-pocket depends on insurance, length of stay, complications, and whether the obstetrician bills separately. Click any hospital name for its full maternity profile, including CMS star rating, patient-experience scores, and (where designated) the CMS Birthing-Friendly Hospital marker — a useful signal of maternity-care quality.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Tennessee hospitals missing from the list either don't perform vaginal delivery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 807 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.