DRG 486 · Musculoskeletal

Knee Surgery for Infection Cost in New Mexico — Compare All Hospitals

An operation to treat an infected knee joint, often by washing out the joint or removing infected tissue. The stay includes the surgery and IV antibiotics.

State average
$147,206
gross charge · DRG 486
Hospitals
5
with published pricing
Price range
$20,305 – $178,931
low to high
Lowest $20,305 Highest $178,931

5 New Mexico hospitals list a gross charge for knee surgery for infection under the federal price-transparency rule, with quoted prices spanning $20,305 to $178,931. The cheapest is Memorial Medical Center in Las Cruces; the most expensive is Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell in Roswell. The state average sits at $147,206.

What's listed is each hospital's gross charge — its published price for the inpatient stay, before any insurance discount. 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 knee surgery for infection at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling knee surgery for infection in New Mexico, 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. New Mexico hospitals missing from the list either don't perform knee surgery for infection in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 486 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

    Memorial Medical Center

    Las Cruces, NM

    Gross charge $20,305
    Cash pay $12,183
  2. 2

    Lovelace Medical Center

    Albuquerque, NM

    Gross charge $178,931
    Cash pay $53,679
  3. 3

    Lovelace Women's Hospital

    Albuquerque, NM

    Gross charge $178,931
    Cash pay $53,679
  4. 4

    Lovelace Westside Hospital

    Albuquerque, NM

    Gross charge $178,931
    Cash pay $53,679
  5. 5

    Lovelace Regional Hospital - Roswell

    Roswell, NM

    Gross charge $178,931
    Cash pay $53,679
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    Unm Hospital

    Albuquerque, NM

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    Christus St Vincent Regional Medical Center

    Santa Fe, NM

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    Christus Southern New Mexico

    Alamogordo, NM

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    Eastern New Mexico Medical Center

    Roswell, NM

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    Carlsbad Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Carlsbad, NM

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    Covenant Health Hobbs Hospital

    Hobbs, NM

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    Plains Regional Medical Center

    Clovis, NM

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    Presbyterian Santa Fe Medical Center

    Santa Fe, NM

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    Lincoln County Medical Center

    Ruidoso, NM

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