Hip & Femur Surgery Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
Surgery to repair the hip or thigh bone, often fixing a fracture with pins, plates, or rods rather than replacing the joint. Recovery in the hospital includes pain control and early physical therapy.
State average
$44,164
gross charge · DRG 481
Hospitals
16
with published pricing
Price range
$13,837 – $92,455
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $13,837Cash pay $9,686 - 2
Davis County Hospital & Clinics
Bloomfield, IA
Gross charge $16,644 - 3
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $22,703Cash pay $15,892 - 4
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, IA
Gross charge $25,215Cash pay $13,112 - 5
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $30,531Cash pay $17,708 - 6
Burgess Health Center
Onawa, IA
Gross charge $33,146Cash pay $26,516 - 7
Mahaska Health
Oskaloosa, IA
Gross charge $35,042Cash pay $29,786 - 8
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $39,803Cash pay $27,862 - 9
Spencer Municipal Hospital
Spencer, IA
Gross charge $44,303Cash pay $33,227Medicare pays (avg) $15,273 - 10
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
Storm Lake, IA
Gross charge $45,571Cash pay $36,456 - 11
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $56,906Cash pay $34,143 - 12
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $57,641 - 13
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $58,449Cash pay $23,380Medicare pays (avg) $15,720 - 14
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $59,701 - 15
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $74,671Cash pay $44,803 - 16
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $92,455Cash pay $60,095Medicare pays (avg) $12,077 - 17
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 18
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 19
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,586 - 20
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,646 - 21
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,222 - 22
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,084 - 23
Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,935 - 24
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,647 - 25
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 26
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,460 - 27
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,106 - 28
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 29
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 31Gross charge —
- 32
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 33
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 34
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 35
St Lukes Regional Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,786 - 36
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 37
Avera Holy Family Hospital
Estherville, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price hip & femur surgery (Medicare DRG 481) anywhere from $13,837 to $92,455 — a $78,617 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics in Red Oak; the most expensive is Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care) in Cedar Rapids. The state average sits at $44,164.
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 hip & femur surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling hip & femur surgery 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 hip & femur surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 481 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.