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 MCC
Iowa City, IA
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University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center Downtown’s median price of $26.3k is 20% below the median hospital's median price ($32.8k), higher than 20% of the 1,941 hospitals reporting MS-DRG 495. The highlighted bar is where this hospital falls; shaded is the middle 50% of hospitals.
Last updated: Feb 27, 2026
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