Acute Stress Reaction Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for an intense emotional or psychological reaction to a stressful event or life crisis. Care focuses on safety, stabilization, counseling, and planning follow-up support.
State average
$10,973
gross charge · DRG 880
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$1,045 – $25,902
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($1,045 at Wayne County Hospital) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $1,045 - 2
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $4,225Cash pay $2,957 - 3
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $6,344Cash pay $4,441 - 4
Spencer Municipal Hospital
Spencer, IA
Gross charge $7,127Cash pay $5,346 - 5
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, IA
Gross charge $7,619Cash pay $3,962 - 6
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
Storm Lake, IA
Gross charge $7,715Cash pay $6,172 - 7
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $10,697 - 8
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $19,175Cash pay $11,505 - 9
Boone County Hospital
Boone, IA
Gross charge $19,880Cash pay $15,904 - 10
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $25,902Cash pay $16,836 - 11
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 12
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 13
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 14
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 15
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 16
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 17
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 18
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 19
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 20
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 21
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 22
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 23
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 24Gross charge —
- 25
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 26
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 27
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 28
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 29
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price acute stress reaction (Medicare DRG 880) anywhere from $1,045 to $25,902 — a $24,857 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Wayne County Hospital in Corydon; the most expensive is Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care) in Cedar Rapids. The state average sits at $10,973.
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 acute stress reaction 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 acute stress reaction 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. Iowa hospitals missing from the list either don't perform acute stress reaction in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 880 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.