Liver & Pancreatic Cancer Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for cancer of the liver, bile ducts, gallbladder, or pancreas. Care may include managing pain, jaundice, or other symptoms, along with tests and treatments directed at the tumor.
State average
$17,478
gross charge · DRG 436
Hospitals
9
with published pricing
Price range
$4,062 – $62,027
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($4,062 at Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)) 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
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge $4,062Cash pay $3,249 - 2
Boone County Hospital
Boone, IA
Gross charge $4,244Cash pay $3,395 - 3
Floyd County Medical Center
Charles City, IA
Gross charge $5,619Cash pay $2,248 - 4
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $5,979 - 5
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $7,473Cash pay $5,231 - 6
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $7,867Cash pay $7,081 - 7
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $9,064Cash pay $5,257 - 8
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $50,971Cash pay $20,388 - 9
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $62,027Cash pay $40,317 - 10
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 11
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 12
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 13
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 14
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 15
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 16
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 17
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 18
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 19
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 20
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 21
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 22
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 23Gross charge —
- 24
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 25
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 26
Stewart Memorial Community Hospital
Lake City, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,687 - 27
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 28
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,014 - 29
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,342 - 31
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price liver & pancreatic cancer (Medicare DRG 436) anywhere from $4,062 to $62,027 — a $57,965 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS) in Orange City; the most expensive is Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care) in Cedar Rapids. The state average sits at $17,478.
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 liver & pancreatic cancer 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 liver & pancreatic cancer 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. Iowa hospitals missing from the list either don't perform liver & pancreatic cancer in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 436 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.