Major Chest Injury Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay after a significant chest injury, such as broken ribs or a bruised lung from a fall or crash, in patients without other complicating conditions. Care focuses on pain control, help with breathing, and monitoring.
State average
$11,317
gross charge · DRG 185
Hospitals
7
with published pricing
Price range
$3,935 – $32,189
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($3,935 at Winnmed) 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
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $3,935Cash pay $2,755 - 2
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $4,612Cash pay $4,150 - 3
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $5,196Cash pay $3,637 - 4
Washington County Hospital and Clinics
Washington, IA
Gross charge $7,672Cash pay $5,754 - 5
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $10,662Cash pay $6,184 - 6
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $14,952 - 7
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $32,189Cash pay $20,923 - 8
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 9
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 10
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 11
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 12
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 13
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 14
Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 15
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 16
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 17
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 18
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 19
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 20
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 21
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 22Gross charge —
- 23
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 24
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 25
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 26
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $2,339 - 27
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $1,764 - 28
St Lukes Regional Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge — - 29
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price major chest injury (Medicare DRG 185) anywhere from $3,935 to $32,189 — a $28,254 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Winnmed in Decorah; the most expensive is Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care) in Cedar Rapids. The state average sits at $11,317.
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 major chest injury 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 major chest injury 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 major chest injury in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 185 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.