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
LOCAL EXCISION AND REMOVAL OF INTERNAL FIXATION DEVICES OF HIP AND FEMUR WITH CC/MCC
Knoxville, TN
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The University of Tennessee Medical Center’s median price of $2.4k is 91% below the median hospital's median price ($26.2k), higher than 0% of the 54 hospitals reporting DRG 498. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Jan 1, 2026
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