Chest Pain Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay to evaluate chest pain and rule out a heart attack or other serious cause. It typically involves heart monitoring, repeated blood tests, and sometimes a stress test or heart imaging.
State average
$16,573
gross charge · DRG 313
Hospitals
26
with published pricing
Price range
$2,058 – $45,916
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($2,058 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 $2,058 - 2
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $2,737Cash pay $1,587 - 3
Washington County Hospital and Clinics
Washington, IA
Gross charge $3,827Cash pay $2,870 - 4
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $4,757Cash pay $3,330 - 5
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $5,053Cash pay $3,537 - 6
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $10,057 - 7
MercyOne Newton Medical Center
Newton, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 8
MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center
Davenport, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 9
MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center (Acute Care)
Mason City, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 10
MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 11
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (Acute Care)
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 12
Mercyone Clinton Medical Center
Clinton, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 13
Mercyone Siouxland Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 14
Hancock County Health System
Britt, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 15
Franklin General Hospital
Hampton, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 16
MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center
Dewitt, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 17
MercyOne Elkader Medical Center
Elkader, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 18
MercyOne New Hampton Medical Center
New Hampton, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 19
MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center
Oelwein, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 20
Mercyone Centerville Medical Center
Centerville, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 21
MercyOne Dyersville Medical Center
Dyersville, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 22
Hansen Family Hospital
Iowa Falls, IA
Gross charge $17,432Cash pay $11,331 - 23
Stewart Memorial Community Hospital
Lake City, IA
Gross charge $18,086Cash pay $14,468 - 24
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $20,387Cash pay $8,155 - 25
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $39,106Cash pay $25,419 - 26
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $45,916Cash pay $27,549 - 27
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 28
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 29
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 31
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 32
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 33
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 34
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 35
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 36
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 37
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 38
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 39
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 40Gross charge —
- 41
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 42
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 43
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 44
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 45
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price chest pain (Medicare DRG 313) anywhere from $2,058 to $45,916 — a $43,858 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Wayne County Hospital in Corydon; the most expensive is Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion in Clarion. The state average sits at $16,573.
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 chest pain 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 chest pain 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 chest pain in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 313 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.