DRG 488 · Musculoskeletal

Knee Surgery Cost in Michigan — Compare All Hospitals

Knee surgery other than a full joint replacement, such as repairing cartilage or removing damaged tissue, when the problem is not a joint infection, in patients who also have complicating conditions. The stay covers the operation, pain control, and early recovery.

State average
$74,749
gross charge · DRG 488
Hospitals
18
with published pricing
Price range
$30,121 – $191,868
low to high
Lowest $30,121 Highest $191,868

Michigan hospitals price knee surgery (Medicare DRG 488) anywhere from $30,121 to $191,868 — a $161,747 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Holland Hospital in Holland; the most expensive is University of Michigan Health-West in Wyoming. The state average sits at $74,749.

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 knee surgery 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 in Michigan, 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. Michigan hospitals missing from the list either don't perform knee surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 488 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

    Holland Hospital

    Holland, MI

    Gross charge $30,121
    Cash pay $18,073
  2. 2

    University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Carson

    Carson City, MI

    Gross charge $41,520
    Cash pay $10,380
  3. 3

    Edward W Sparrow Hospital

    Lansing, MI

    Gross charge $41,520
    Cash pay $10,380
  4. 4

    University of Michigan Health- Sparrow Clinton

    Saint Johns, MI

    Gross charge $41,520
    Cash pay $10,380
  5. 5

    University of Michigan Health-Sparrow Eaton

    Charlotte, MI

    Gross charge $41,520
    Cash pay $10,380
  6. 6

    Sparrow Ionia Hospital

    Ionia, MI

    Gross charge $41,520
    Cash pay $10,380
  7. 7

    McLaren Bay Region

    Bay City, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  8. 8

    Mclaren Central Michigan

    Mount Pleasant, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  9. 9

    Mclaren Northern Michigan (Acute Care)

    Petoskey, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  10. 10

    Mclaren Flint

    Flint, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  11. 11

    McLaren Greater Lansing

    Lansing, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  12. 12

    McLaren Lapeer Region

    Lapeer, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  13. 13

    McLaren Oakland

    Pontiac, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  14. 14

    Karmanos Cancer Center

    Detroit, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  15. 15
    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  16. 16

    McLaren Thumb Region

    Bad Axe, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  17. 17

    Mclaren Macomb (Acute Care)

    Mount Clemens, MI

    Gross charge $83,264
    Cash pay $41,632
  18. 18

    University of Michigan Health-West

    Wyoming, MI

    Gross charge $191,868
    Cash pay $76,747
  19. 19

    Three Rivers Health

    Three Rivers, MI

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    MyMichigan Medical Center Alma

    Alma, MI

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  22. 22

    Lake Huron Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Port Huron, MI

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $19,189
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    Hillsdale Hospital

    Hillsdale, MI

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  25. 25

    Spectrum Health

    Grand Rapids, MI

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  26. 26

    University of Michigan Health

    Ann Arbor, MI

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  27. 27

    Mymichigan Medical Center Saginaw

    Saginaw, MI

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  28. 28

    MyMichigan Medical Center West Branch

    West Branch, MI

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  29. 29

    Borgess Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Kalamazoo, MI

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  30. 30

    Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak

    Royal Oak, MI

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    Henry Ford St. John Hospital

    Detroit, MI

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  32. 32

    MyMichigan Medical Center Clare

    Clare, MI

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  33. 33

    Henry Ford Hospital (Warren)

    Warren, MI

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  34. 34

    Henry Ford Genesys Hospital

    Grand Blanc, MI

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  35. 35

    MyMichigan Medical Center Midland

    Midland, MI

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  36. 36

    Chippewa County War Memorial Hospital

    Sault Ste Marie, MI

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  37. 37

    Ascension River District Hospital

    East China, MI

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  38. 38

    Ascension Rochester main entrance

    Rochester, MI

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  40. 40

    Saint Mary's Standish Community Hospital

    Standish, MI

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  44. 44

    Covenant Medical Center

    Saginaw, MI

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  45. 45

    Tawas St Joseph Hospital

    Tawas City, MI

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  46. 46

    Memorial Healthcare

    Owosso, MI

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  47. 47

    Corewell Health Wayne Hospital

    Wayne, MI

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  48. 48

    DMC Detroit Receiving Hospital

    Detroit, MI

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  49. 49

    Bronson LakeView Hospital

    Paw Paw, MI

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