DRG 556 · Musculoskeletal

Muscle & Joint Symptoms Cost in Tennessee — 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
$31,328
gross charge · DRG 556
Hospitals
12
with published pricing
Price range
$8,645 – $77,373
low to high
Lowest $8,645 Highest $77,373

Tennessee hospitals price muscle & joint symptoms (Medicare DRG 556) anywhere from $8,645 to $77,373 — a $68,728 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Unity Medical Center in Manchester; the most expensive is Southern Tennessee Regional Health System Lawrenceburg in Lawrenceburg. The state average sits at $31,328.

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 Tennessee, 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. Tennessee 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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Unity Medical Center

    Manchester, TN

    Gross charge $8,645
    Cash pay $6,916
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    Gross charge $9,336
    Cash pay $3,043
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    Gross charge $9,336
    Cash pay $3,043
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    Gross charge $9,336
    Cash pay $3,043
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    Sycamore Shoals Hospital

    Elizabethton, TN

    Gross charge $17,699
    Cash pay $2,655
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    Methodist Hospitals of Memphis

    Memphis, TN

    Gross charge $24,672
    Cash pay $5,428
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    Gross charge $26,032
    Cash pay $3,905
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    Johnson City Medical Center

    Johnson City, TN

    Gross charge $28,816
    Cash pay $4,322
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    Cookeville Regional Medical Center

    Cookeville, TN

    Gross charge $46,268
    Cash pay $28,362
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    Gross charge $54,088
    Cash pay $15,848
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    Starr Regional Medical Center Athens

    Athens, TN

    Gross charge $64,334
    Cash pay $12,609
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    Gross charge $77,373
    Cash pay $19,266
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    Jackson-Madison County General Hospital

    Jackson, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Carroll County

    Huntingdon, TN

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    Roane Medical Center

    Harriman, TN

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    LaFollette Medical Center

    La Follette, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis

    Memphis, TN

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    Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford

    Murfreesboro, TN

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    Jefferson Memorial Hospital

    Jefferson City, TN

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    Volunteer Community Hospital

    Martin, TN

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    Dyersburg Regional Medical Center

    Dyersburg, TN

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    Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital West

    Nashville, TN

    12 Medicare stays/yr
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    Medicare pays (avg) $5,588
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    North Knoxville Medical Center

    Powell, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City

    Union City, TN

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    Baptist Memorial Hospital-Tipton

    Covington, TN

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    Dekalb Community Hospital

    Smithville, TN

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    Ascension Saint Thomas River Park

    Mcminnville, TN

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    TriStar Centennial Medical Center

    Nashville, TN

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    Parkwest Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

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    Affiliate of Vitruvian Health

    Cleveland, TN

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    Erlanger Medical Center

    Chattanooga, TN

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    Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge

    Oak Ridge, TN

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    Leconte Medical Center

    Sevierville, TN

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    Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center

    Knoxville, TN

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    Memorial Healthcare System, Inc

    Chattanooga, TN

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    University Health System, Inc

    Knoxville, TN

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    Parkridge Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Chattanooga, TN

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    Tristar Hendersonville Medical Center

    Hendersonville, TN

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    Cumberland Medical Center

    Crossville, TN

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    Fort Loudoun Medical Center

    Lenoir City, TN

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