# Heart valve surgery with cardiac catheterisation (with major complications) in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `216`. Prices for this code at 23 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/heart-valve-surgery-with-cardiac-catheterisation-with-major

Cardiac Valve And Other Major Cardiothoracic Procedures With Cardiac Catheterization With Mcc

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 12 publish a facility charge; 11 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $65,812 |
| Typical | $77,053 |
| Dearest tenth | $90,367 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $46,098 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,340 | $303,809 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $58,509 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,340 | $303,809 | 90 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | $65,134 | $65,134 | not mentioned | not published | $800 | $212,324 | 27 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $68,522 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $3,538 | $303,809 | 90 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $70,920 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $3,538 | $303,809 | 91 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $70,920 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $3,538 | $303,809 | 91 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $74,533 | $74,533 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 24 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $74,759 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $154,347 | $10 | $272,581 | 19 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $74,770 | $74,770 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 24 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $76,225 | $76,225 | not mentioned | not published | $36,995 | $387,020 | 24 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $76,780 | $76,780 | not mentioned | not published | $36,995 | $387,020 | 25 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $77,053 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $149,162 | $72,691 | $272,581 | 19 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $77,524 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $149,162 | $72,820 | $272,581 | 19 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $78,074 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $149,162 | $73,359 | $272,581 | 19 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $80,181 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $149,162 | $75,287 | $219,066 | 20 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $80,447 | $80,447 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 24 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $82,586 | $82,586 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 22 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $84,063 | $84,063 | not mentioned | not published | $36,995 | $387,020 | 25 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $85,323 | $85,323 | not mentioned | not published | $36,995 | $387,020 | 25 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $86,404 | $86,404 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 24 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE (19.7 mi) | 1/5 | $91,358 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $76,038 | $9,514 | $149,139 | 46 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $91,509 | $91,509 | not mentioned | not published | $36,995 | $387,020 | 25 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $92,544 | $92,544 | not mentioned | not published | $49,305 | $204,878 | 24 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 1 of the 6 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 5 it is higher.

## Others in inpatient stays (drg)

- [Hip or knee replacement (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/hip-or-knee-replacement-no-major-complications) -- 85 hospitals, typically $17,003
- [Uterus or ovary surgery, non-cancer (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/uterus-or-ovary-surgery-non-cancer-no-complications) -- 84 hospitals, typically $11,778
- [Neck spinal fusion (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-spinal-fusion-no-complications) -- 80 hospitals, typically $21,105
- [Back spinal fusion (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/back-spinal-fusion-no-major-complications) -- 33 hospitals, typically $38,620

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2026-01-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.