Bone & Joint Disease Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A painful flare-up of a bone or joint condition, such as severe arthritis, gout, or a bone disorder, managed without surgery. The stay usually involves pain control, medications, imaging, and physical therapy to get moving again.
State average
$24,123
gross charge · DRG 554
Hospitals
29
with published pricing
Price range
$2,349 – $66,866
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($2,349 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 $2,349 - 2
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge $2,477Cash pay $1,981 - 3
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $4,116Cash pay $2,470 - 4
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $5,484Cash pay $3,839 - 5
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $7,943Cash pay $7,148 - 6
Virginia Gay Hospital
Vinton, IA
Gross charge $12,519Cash pay $10,015 - 7
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $17,466Cash pay $10,479 - 8
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $18,299Cash pay $12,809 - 9
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Belmond
Belmond, IA
Gross charge $20,679Cash pay $12,407 - 10
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $24,428Cash pay $9,771 - 11
MercyOne Newton Medical Center
Newton, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 12
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center
Davenport, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 13
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mason City, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 14
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 15
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (Acute Care)
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 16
Mercyone Clinton Medical Center
Clinton, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 17
Mercyone Siouxland Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 18
Hancock County Health System
Britt, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 19
Franklin General Hospital
Hampton, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 20
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center
Dewitt, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 21
MercyOne Elkader Medical Center
Elkader, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 22
MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center
New Hampton, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 23
MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center
Oelwein, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 24
Mercyone Centerville Medical Center
Centerville, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 25
MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center
Dyersville, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 26
Hansen Family Hospital
Iowa Falls, IA
Gross charge $26,108Cash pay $16,970 - 27
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $37,966Cash pay $24,678 - 28
Floyd County Medical Center
Charles City, IA
Gross charge $61,251Cash pay $24,500 - 29
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $66,866 - 30
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 31
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 32
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 33
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 34
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 35
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 36
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 37
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 38
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 39
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 40
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 41
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 42
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 43Gross charge —
- 44
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 45
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 46
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 47
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 48
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price bone & joint disease (Medicare DRG 554) anywhere from $2,349 to $66,866 — a $64,518 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Wayne County Hospital in Corydon; the most expensive is St Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. The state average sits at $24,123.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. 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 bone & joint disease at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling bone & joint disease in Iowa, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
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 bone & joint disease in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 554 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.