Orthopedic Aftercare Cost in Iowa — Compare All Hospitals
A hospital stay for problems that arise after earlier bone, joint, or muscle treatment, such as trouble with healing or with surgical hardware. Care depends on the issue and may involve wound care, medicines, or adjustments to the earlier treatment.
State average
$14,903
gross charge · DRG 560
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$4,832 – $32,068
low to high
Data notes for Iowa
- The lowest published charge ($4,832 at Mitchell County Regional Health Center) 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
Mitchell County Regional Health Center
Osage, IA
Gross charge $4,832Cash pay $4,349 - 2
Cass County Memorial Hospital
Atlantic, IA
Gross charge $6,967Cash pay $4,877 - 3
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital + Clinics
Red Oak, IA
Gross charge $7,440Cash pay $5,208 - 4
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
Storm Lake, IA
Gross charge $7,781Cash pay $6,224 - 5
Myrtue Medical Center
Harlan, IA
Gross charge $8,451Cash pay $4,901 - 6
Adair County Memorial Hospital
Greenfield, IA
Gross charge $8,881Cash pay $6,661 - 7
Mahaska Health
Oskaloosa, IA
Gross charge $10,508Cash pay $8,932 - 8
Winnmed
Decorah, IA
Gross charge $10,752Cash pay $7,527 - 9
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Clarion
Clarion, IA
Gross charge $12,862Cash pay $7,717 - 10
Wayne County Hospital
Corydon, IA
Gross charge $16,856 - 11
St Anthony Regional Hospital
Carroll, IA
Gross charge $16,885 - 12
Orange City Area Health System (OCAHS)
Orange City, IA
Gross charge $17,829Cash pay $14,263 - 13
Floyd County Medical Center
Charles City, IA
Gross charge $21,621Cash pay $8,648 - 14
Davis County Hospital & Clinics
Bloomfield, IA
Gross charge $21,958 - 15
Jefferson County Health Center
Fairfield, IA
Gross charge $22,018Cash pay $13,211 - 16
Iowa Specialty Hospital - Belmond
Belmond, IA
Gross charge $25,636Cash pay $15,382 - 17
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge $32,068Cash pay $20,844 - 18
UnityPoint Health - Marshalltown Hospital
Marshalltown, IA
Gross charge — - 19
Trinity Muscatine
Muscatine, IA
Gross charge — - 20
Trinity Regional Medical Center
Fort Dodge, IA
Gross charge — - 21
Chi Health Mercy Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 22
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown
Iowa City, IA
Gross charge — - 23
St Lukes Hospital (Acute Care)
Cedar Rapids, IA
Gross charge — - 24
Methodist Jennie Edmundson
Council Bluffs, IA
Gross charge — - 25
UnityPoint Health - Iowa Methodist Medical Center
Des Moines, IA
Gross charge — - 26
UnityPoint Health - Trinity Bettendorf Hospital
Bettendorf, IA
Gross charge — - 27
Allen Hospital
Waterloo, IA
Gross charge — - 28
Finley Hospital
Dubuque, IA
Gross charge — - 29
UnityPoint Health - Grinnell Regional Medical Center
Grinnell, IA
Gross charge — - 30
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
Grundy Center, IA
Gross charge — - 31
Chi Health - Mercy Corning
Corning, IA
Gross charge — - 32Gross charge —
- 33
Chi Health Missouri Valley
Missouri Valley, IA
Gross charge — - 34
Clarke County Hospital
Osceola, IA
Gross charge — - 35
Henry County Health Center
Mount Pleasant, IA
Gross charge — - 36
St Lukes Regional Medical Center
Sioux City, IA
Gross charge — - 37
Community Memorial Hospital Medical Center
Sumner, IA
Gross charge —
Iowa hospitals price orthopedic aftercare (Medicare DRG 560) anywhere from $4,832 to $32,068 — a $27,236 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage; the most expensive is Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Acute Care) in Cedar Rapids. The state average sits at $14,903.
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 orthopedic aftercare at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling orthopedic aftercare 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 orthopedic aftercare in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 560 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.