The whole hospital stay for a hip or knee joint replacement, without major complications - the most common inpatient surgery.
Code 470 · Hospital stays (inpatient)
· by county · negotiated in-network prices ·
by state, with single plans
Payers shown: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Montana (HCSC) · all plans together
Prices shown: hospital inpatient care
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? This is the hospital's own payment for the stay (the facility fee). Surgeons, anesthesiologists and other doctors bill separately, on top of it.
County
Providers
Lowest
25th pct
Median
75th pct
Highest
vs Medicare
“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare actually paid hospitals in the same state for the same kind of stay in 2024, the newest year it has published: the average per stay, the patient’s share included, at hospitals with more than ten such stays. Medicare’s payment varies by hospital (wages, teaching, low-income patients), so this is a state average, not any one hospital’s rate. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x.
Counties with fewer than five providers are not shown. A price
in a county with one or two providers would be those providers’ own price;
provider-level detail is not published here, but
this specific data can be requested here. A provider is placed in the county of
the practice address it registered with the federal NPI registry.