Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.
Original text from hospital filings
MS-DRG 42.00: LOCAL EXCISION AND REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FIXATION DEVICES EXCEPT HIP AND FEMUR WITH CC
Sterling, CO
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Sterling Regional Medical Center’s median price of $23.6k is 35% above the median hospital's median price ($17.5k), higher than 77% of the 1,998 hospitals reporting MS-DRG 496. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Mar 2, 2026
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