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

Billing code `216`. Prices for this code at 5 hospitals within 35 miles of Savannah, 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/savannah/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, 4 publish a facility charge; 1 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lowest reported | $74,763 |
| Typical | $77,034 |
| Highest reported | $91,649 |

Too few hospitals here for a decile to mean anything, so these are the true extremes and a single unusual figure can set one of them.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Health University Medical Center | SAVANNAH (5.6 mi) | 1/5 | $74,763 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $450 | $210,575 | 65 |
| Candler Hospital | SAVANNAH (3.0 mi) | 2/5 | $77,034 | $77,034 | not mentioned | not published | $22,058 | $163,035 | 26 |
| St Joseph's Hospital - Savannah | SAVANNAH (5.7 mi) | 2/5 | $77,034 | $77,034 | not mentioned | not published | $22,058 | $163,035 | 26 |
| Coastal Carolina Hospital | HARDEEVILLE, SC (15.2 mi) | 4/5 | $79,307 | $79,307 | not mentioned | $149,522 | $75,531 | $502,699 | 25 |
| Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center | HILTON HEAD ISLAND, SC (27.7 mi) | 2/5 | $91,649 | $91,649 | not mentioned | $136,301 | $87,285 | $504,137 | 25 |

## 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 all 2 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is HIGHER than what that hospital typically accepts from an insurer. Self-pay is not automatically the cheaper option.

2 of these 5 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Coastal Carolina Hospital, Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center.

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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 2026-03-01 to 2026-04-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.