Muscle & Joint Symptoms Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
Pain or other symptoms in the muscles, bones, or joints that need hospital evaluation. The stay usually involves imaging and tests to find the cause, along with pain management.
State average
$15,615
gross charge · DRG 556
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$5,487 – $49,004
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $5,487Cash pay $3,841 - 2
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $7,482Cash pay $6,733 - 3
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $7,608Cash pay $5,325 - 4
Waverly Health Center
Waverly, IA
Gross charge $8,039Cash pay $4,180 - 5
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $8,043Cash pay $4,826 - 6
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $8,270Cash pay $4,797 - 7
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $12,503Cash pay $7,502 - 8
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $13,243Cash pay $9,270 - 9
Mahaska Health
Oskaloosa, IA
Gross charge $13,934Cash pay $11,844 - 10
Manning Regional Healthcare Center
Manning, IA
Gross charge $18,361Cash pay $13,036 - 11
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $35,399Cash pay $23,010 - 12
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Belmond
Belmond, IA
Gross charge $49,004Cash pay $29,403 - 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 —Medicare pays (avg) $4,282 - 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
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 25
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 26Gross charge —
- 27
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 28
Washington County Hospital and Clinics
Washington, 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
Sioux Center Health
Sioux Center, IA
Gross charge — - 34
St Lukes Regional Medical Center (Acute Care)
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price muscle & joint symptoms (Medicare DRG 556) anywhere from $5,487 to $49,004 — a $43,517 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 - Belmond in Belmond. The state average sits at $15,615.
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 & joint symptoms at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling muscle & joint symptoms 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 & joint symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 556 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.