Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications — what U.S. hospitals charge
MS-DRG 501 · Inpatient stay · 28 U.S. hospitals publish a price
Cheapest quarter
under $60,445
Typical charge
$103,332
Dearest quarter
over $123,098
Actually paid
$21,355
The middle U.S. hospital bills $103,332 for Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications. The dearest hospitals charge about 3.6x what the cheapest do for the same coded work. Medicare actually paid about $21,355 per case.
These are charges, not quotes. What you pay depends on your insurance and your own case. The figures matter because the charge is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.
Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications cost by state
The middle charge in each state where at least three hospitals publish a price, cheapest first.
| State | Hospitals | Typical charge | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 4 | $69,198 | $47,305 – $134,780 |
| New York | 4 | $146,354 | $95,702 – $197,781 |
Where Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications is charged least
Hospitals that performed it at least eleven times, so a single case cannot set the figure.
| Hospital | Charged | Actually paid |
|---|---|---|
|
Memorial Healthcare System, Inc
Chattanooga, TN |
$40,671 | $10,524 |
|
Southcoast Hospitals Group
Fall River, MA |
$47,305 | $14,457 |
|
Ecu Health Medical Center
Greenville, NC |
$48,213 | $17,915 |
|
Christiana Hospital
Newark, DE |
$50,146 | $16,238 |
|
Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital
Saint Louis Park, MN |
$51,496 | $13,346 |
|
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA |
$55,816 | $24,765 |
|
St Charles Medical Center - Bend
Bend, OR |
$57,031 | $17,668 |
|
Banner Desert Medical Center
Mesa, AZ |
$61,584 | $14,338 |
|
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, VA |
$62,327 | $17,690 |
|
Saint Francis Hospital, Inc
Tulsa, OK |
$75,168 | $18,347 |
|
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, MA |
$82,580 | $21,195 |
|
Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester
Rochester, MN |
$93,243 | $33,508 |
Where it is charged most
Hospitals that performed it at least eleven times, so a single case cannot set the figure.
| Hospital | Charged | Actually paid |
|---|---|---|
|
Stanford Health Care
Stanford, CA |
$298,658 | $28,192 |
|
New York-Presbyterian Hospital
New York, NY |
$197,781 | $29,288 |
|
Nyu Langone Hospitals
New York, NY |
$177,081 | $25,857 |
|
Ucsf Medical Center
San Francisco, CA |
$176,754 | $30,588 |
|
Hospital Of Univ Of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA |
$164,932 | $20,250 |
|
Brigham And Women's Hospital
Boston, MA |
$134,780 | $23,819 |
|
University Of Kansas Hospital
Kansas City, KS |
$134,084 | $17,318 |
|
Morristown Medical Center
Morristown, NJ |
$119,436 | $18,382 |
|
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, TN |
$117,707 | $26,176 |
|
University Of Alabama Hospital
Birmingham, AL |
$117,381 | $20,207 |
|
Mount Sinai Hospital
New York, NY |
$115,627 | $25,753 |
|
University Of Virginia Medical Center
Charlottesville, VA |
$108,254 | $24,968 |
Questions people ask
What do U.S. hospitals charge for Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications?
Across 28 U.S. hospitals, the middle charge for Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications is $103,332. Half of hospitals charge less than that and half charge more. The cheapest quarter charge under $60,445 and the dearest quarter over $123,098.
Why do hospitals charge such different amounts for the same procedure?
Because a hospital charge is a list price it sets itself, not a regulated rate. For Soft Tissue Procedures with Complications, the hospitals in the dearest tenth charge about 3.6x what the cheapest tenth charge for the same coded work. Insurers negotiate their own rates from those lists, which is why the charge and what is actually paid can be very far apart.
Is that what I would actually pay?
No. $21,355 is roughly what Medicare actually paid per case, against an average charge of $108,704. If you have insurance, your plan pays a negotiated rate and you pay your deductible and coinsurance. If you are uninsured or out of network, the hospital's charge is where your bill starts — which is why the gap matters. Ask for a written good-faith estimate before treatment.
What this code covers
CMS records this work as MS-DRG 501: “SOFT TISSUE PROCEDURES WITH CC”. A DRG covers a whole inpatient stay rather than a single item, so the charge includes the room, the procedure and the care around it. Codes that mention complications carry a different, usually higher price.