DRG 481 · Musculoskeletal

Hip & Femur Surgery Cost in South Carolina — 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
$88,782
gross charge · DRG 481
Hospitals
5
with published pricing
Price range
$55,642 – $103,879
low to high
Lowest $55,642 Highest $103,879

South Carolina hospitals price hip & femur surgery (Medicare DRG 481) anywhere from $55,642 to $103,879 — a $48,237 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital in Murrells Inlet; the most expensive is Anmed Health in Anderson. The state average sits at $88,782.

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 South Carolina, 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. South Carolina 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

    Murrells Inlet, SC

    32 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $55,642
    Cash pay $36,167
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,994
  2. 2

    Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center

    Hilton Head Island, SC

    35 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $90,256
    Cash pay $45,128
    Medicare pays (avg) $18,063
  3. 3

    Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center

    Mount Pleasant, SC

    Gross charge $90,256
    Cash pay $45,128
  4. 4
    Gross charge $103,879
    Cash pay $51,939
  5. 5

    Anmed Health

    Anderson, SC

    36 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $103,879
    Cash pay $51,939
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,022
  6. 6

    Mcleod Medical Center - Dillon

    Dillon, SC

    Gross charge
  7. 7

    Colleton Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Walterboro, SC

    Gross charge
  8. 8

    McLeod Regional Medical Center

    Florence, SC

    74 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,118
  9. 9

    Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare

    Charleston, SC

    19 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,231
  10. 10

    Trident Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Charleston, SC

    81 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,604
  11. 11

    Grand Strand Regional Medical Center

    Myrtle Beach, SC

    94 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,677
  12. 12

    Roper Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare

    Charleston, SC

    36 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,812
  13. 13

    Coastal Carolina Hospital

    Hardeeville, SC

    20 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $85,269
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,871
  14. 14

    Mount Pleasant Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare

    Mount Pleasant, SC

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,494
  15. 15

    McLeod Health Loris

    Loris, SC

    50 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,361
  16. 16

    McLeod Health Cheraw

    Cheraw, SC

    Gross charge
  17. 17

    Mcleod Health Clarendon

    Manning, SC

    Gross charge
  18. 18

    Berkeley Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare

    Summerville, SC

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,298
  19. 19

    Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center

    Hartsville, SC

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,858

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