Joint Infection Cost in Tennessee — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for a bacterial infection inside a joint, such as the knee or hip, which causes severe pain and swelling. Treatment typically combines IV antibiotics with a procedure to drain or wash out the joint.
Data notes for Tennessee
- The lowest published charge ($4,809 at Unity Medical Center) 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
Unity Medical Center
Manchester, TN
Gross charge $4,809Cash pay $3,847 - 2
Bristol Regional Medical Center: Emergency Room
Bristol, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 3
Holston Valley Medical Center
Kingsport, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 4
Hawkins County Memorial Hospital
Rogersville, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 5
Greeneville Community Hospital
Greeneville, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 6
Indian Path Community Hospital
Kingsport, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 7
Franklin Woods Community Hospital
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 8
Hancock County Hospital
Sneedville, TN
Gross charge $24,180Cash pay $3,627 - 9
Cookeville Regional Medical Center
Cookeville, TN
Gross charge $26,872Cash pay $16,472 - 10
Methodist Hospitals of Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge $27,770Cash pay $6,109 - 11
Johnson City Medical Center
Johnson City, TN
Gross charge $43,371Cash pay $6,506 - 12Gross charge $64,077Cash pay $18,775
- 13
Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg
Lawrenceburg, TN
Gross charge $127,272Cash pay $31,691 - 14
Jackson-Madison County General Hospital
Jackson, TN
Gross charge — - 15
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County
Huntingdon, TN
Gross charge — - 16
LaFollette Medical Center
La Follette, TN
Gross charge — - 17
Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, TN
Gross charge — - 18
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis
Memphis, TN
Gross charge — - 19
Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford
Murfreesboro, TN
Gross charge — - 20
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Jefferson City, TN
Gross charge — - 21
Claiborne Medical Center
Tazewell, TN
Gross charge — - 22
West Tennessee Healthcare Milan Hospital
Milan, TN
Gross charge — - 23
Volunteer Community Hospital
Martin, TN
Gross charge — - 24
Dyersburg Regional Medical Center
Dyersburg, TN
Gross charge — - 25Gross charge —
- 26
Leconte Medical Center
Sevierville, TN
Gross charge — - 27
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 28
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 29
North Knoxville Medical Center
Powell, TN
Gross charge — - 30
Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 31
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City
Union City, TN
Gross charge — - 32
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton
Covington, TN
Gross charge — - 33Gross charge —
- 34
Dekalb Community Hospital
Smithville, TN
Gross charge — - 35
Ascension Saint Thomas River Park
Mcminnville, TN
Gross charge — - 36
Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 37
TriStar Centennial Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 38
Parkwest Medical Center
Knoxville, TN
Gross charge — - 39
Affiliate of Vitruvian Health
Cleveland, TN
Gross charge — - 40
Ascension Saint Thomas Highlands
Sparta, TN
Gross charge — - 41
Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center
Hendersonville, TN
Gross charge — - 42
Ascension Saint Thomas Stones River
Woodbury, TN
Gross charge — - 43
Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital Midtown
Nashville, TN
Gross charge — - 44
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman
Centerville, TN
Gross charge — - 45
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers
Waverly, TN
Gross charge — - 46
Maury Regional Medical Center (Critical Access)
Lewisburg, TN
Gross charge — - 47
West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital
Camden, TN
Gross charge — - 48
Bolivar General Hospital
Bolivar, TN
Gross charge — - 49
Erlanger Medical Center
Chattanooga, TN
Gross charge — - 50
Erlanger Bledsoe Hospital
Pikeville, TN
Gross charge —
Tennessee hospitals price joint infection (Medicare DRG 549) anywhere from $4,809 to $127,272 — a $122,463 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg in Lawrenceburg. The state average sits at $35,649.
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 joint infection at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling joint infection in Tennessee, 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. Tennessee hospitals missing from the list either don't perform joint infection in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 549 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.