DRG 493 · Musculoskeletal

Leg & Arm Bone Surgery Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery on bones of the lower leg, knee area, ankle, or upper arm — most often to repair a fracture with plates, screws, or rods. The stay covers the operation, pain control, and beginning rehabilitation.

State average
$68,849
gross charge · DRG 493
Hospitals
25
with published pricing
Price range
$16,755 – $129,254
low to high
Lowest $16,755 Highest $129,254

Iowa hospitals price leg & arm bone surgery (Medicare DRG 493) anywhere from $16,755 to $129,254 — a $112,499 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics in Red Oak; the most expensive is Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion in Clarion. The state average sits at $68,849.

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 leg & arm bone surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling leg & arm bone surgery in Iowa, 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. Iowa hospitals missing from the list either don't perform leg & arm bone surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 493 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
    Gross charge $16,755
    Cash pay $11,728
  2. 2

    Cass County Memorial Hospital

    Atlantic, IA

    Gross charge $22,166
    Cash pay $15,516
  3. 3

    Winnmed

    Decorah, IA

    Gross charge $23,067
    Cash pay $16,147
  4. 4
    Gross charge $27,404
  5. 5

    Jefferson County Health Center

    Fairfield, IA

    Gross charge $30,551
    Cash pay $18,331
  6. 6
    Gross charge $58,203
  7. 7

    Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)

    Ottumwa, IA

    Gross charge $69,163
    Cash pay $27,665
  8. 8

    MercyOne Newton Medical Center

    Newton, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  9. 9

    MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center

    Davenport, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  10. 10

    MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Mason City, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  11. 11

    MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center

    Waterloo, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  12. 12

    MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Dubuque, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  13. 13

    Mercyone Clinton Medical Center

    Clinton, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  14. 14

    Mercyone Siouxland Medical Center

    Sioux City, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  15. 15
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  16. 16
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  17. 17
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  18. 18
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  19. 19
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  20. 20
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  21. 21
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  22. 22
    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  23. 23

    Hansen Family Hospital

    Iowa Falls, IA

    Gross charge $77,936
    Cash pay $50,658
  24. 24

    Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)

    Cedar Rapids, IA

    Gross charge $97,683
    Cash pay $63,494
  25. 25
    Gross charge $129,254
    Cash pay $77,552
  26. 26

    UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital

    Marshalltown, IA

    Gross charge
  27. 27

    Trinity Muscatine

    Muscatine, IA

    Gross charge
  28. 28

    Trinity Regional Medical Center

    Fort Dodge, IA

    Gross charge
  29. 29

    Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs

    Council Bluffs, IA

    Gross charge
  30. 30
    Gross charge
  31. 31

    St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)

    Cedar Rapids, IA

    Gross charge
  32. 32

    Methodist Jennie Edmundson

    Council Bluffs, IA

    Gross charge
  33. 33

    UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center

    Des Moines, IA

    24 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,903
  34. 34

    UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital

    Bettendorf, IA

    Gross charge
  35. 35

    Allen Hospital

    Waterloo, IA

    Gross charge
  36. 36

    Finley Hospital

    Dubuque, IA

    Gross charge
  37. 37
    Gross charge
  38. 38
    Gross charge
  39. 39

    Chi Health - Mercy Corning

    Corning, IA

    Gross charge
  40. 40
    Gross charge
  41. 41

    Chi Health Missouri Valley

    Missouri Valley, IA

    Gross charge
  42. 42

    Clarke County Hospital

    Osceola, IA

    Gross charge
  43. 43

    Henry County Health Center

    Mount Pleasant, IA

    Gross charge
  44. 44

    St Lukes Regional Medical Center

    Sioux City, IA

    Gross charge
  45. 45
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