Muscle, Bone & Joint Disorders Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
Muscle, bone, joint, or connective tissue problems that don't fit a more specific category. The stay typically involves imaging, pain management, and treatment of the underlying problem.
State average
$14,350
gross charge · DRG 565
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$2,883 – $39,181
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($2,883 at Washington County Hospital and Clinics) 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
Washington County Hospital and Clinics
Washington, IA
Gross charge $2,883Cash pay $2,162 - 2
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $5,321Cash pay $3,086 - 3
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $6,437Cash pay $4,506 - 4
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $6,894Cash pay $6,205 - 5
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $7,684Cash pay $4,610 - 6
Audubon County Memorial Hospital
Audubon, IA
Gross charge $8,838 - 7
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $9,696Cash pay $6,787 - 8
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, IA
Gross charge $12,204Cash pay $6,346 - 9
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $17,189Cash pay $12,032 - 10
Boone County Hospital
Boone, IA
Gross charge $22,005Cash pay $17,604 - 11
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $33,868Cash pay $22,014 - 12
Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care)
Ottumwa, IA
Gross charge $39,181Cash pay $15,672 - 13
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 14
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 15
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 16
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 17
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 18
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 19
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 20
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 21
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 22
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 23
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 24
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Belmond
Belmond, IA
Gross charge —Cash pay $902 - 25
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 26
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 27Gross charge —
- 28
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 29
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 31
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge — - 32
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge — - 33
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price muscle, bone & joint disorders (Medicare DRG 565) anywhere from $2,883 to $39,181 — a $36,298 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Washington County Hospital and Clinics in Washington; the most expensive is Ottumwa Regional Health Center (Acute Care) in Ottumwa. The state average sits at $14,350.
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 muscle, bone & joint disorders at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling muscle, bone & joint disorders 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 muscle, bone & joint disorders in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 565 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.