Infection Requiring Surgery Cost in South Carolina — Compare All Hospitals
A serious infection that requires an operation as part of treatment, such as surgery to remove infected tissue or drain an abscess. The stay involves the operation plus IV antibiotics and close monitoring, often in intensive care.
State average
$126,134
gross charge · DRG 853
Hospitals
5
with published pricing
Price range
$93,172 – $166,213
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center
Hilton Head Island, SC
Gross charge $93,172Cash pay $46,586Medicare pays (avg) $42,406 - 2
Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center
Mount Pleasant, SC
Gross charge $93,172Cash pay $46,586Medicare pays (avg) $29,615 - 3
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital
Murrells Inlet, SC
Gross charge $114,722Cash pay $74,569Medicare pays (avg) $29,262 - 4
Cannon Memorial Hospital
Pickens, SC
Gross charge $163,390Cash pay $81,695 - 5
Anmed Health
Anderson, SC
Gross charge $166,213Cash pay $81,695Medicare pays (avg) $39,954 - 6
Mcleod Medical Center - Dillon
Dillon, SC
Gross charge — - 7
Colleton Medical Center (Acute Care)
Walterboro, SC
Gross charge — - 8
McLeod Regional Medical Center
Florence, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $31,134 - 9Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,094
- 10
Trident Medical Center (Acute Care)
Charleston, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,563 - 11
Grand Strand Regional Medical Center
Myrtle Beach, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $33,599 - 12
Roper Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Charleston, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $30,237 - 13
Coastal Carolina Hospital
Hardeeville, SC
Gross charge —Cash pay $81,510Medicare pays (avg) $22,860 - 14
Mount Pleasant Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Mount Pleasant, SC
Gross charge — - 15
McLeod Health Loris
Loris, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $27,959 - 16
McLeod Health Cheraw
Cheraw, SC
Gross charge — - 17
Mcleod Health Clarendon
Manning, SC
Gross charge — - 18
Berkeley Hospital | Roper St. Francis Healthcare
Summerville, SC
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $21,962 - 19
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center
Hartsville, SC
Gross charge —
South Carolina hospitals price infection requiring surgery (Medicare DRG 853) anywhere from $93,172 to $166,213 — a $73,041 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Novant Health Hilton Head Medical Center in Hilton Head Island; the most expensive is Anmed Health in Anderson. The state average sits at $126,134.
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 infection requiring surgery 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 infection requiring surgery 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. South Carolina hospitals missing from the list either don't perform infection requiring surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 853 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.