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Cash prices Iowa Outpatient

Cheapest hospitals in Iowa without insurance

Of 37 hospitals in Iowa we can compare, Alegent Health - Mercy Hospital, Corning Iowa (Corning) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 44% below the Iowa median across 347 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all Iowa hospitals, procedure by procedure.

Collected Sep 25, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures

Hospital Typical priceBelow median Above median
1. Alegent Health - Mercy Hospital, Corning Iowa Corning 44% below 258 of 347 85 of 347
2. Alegent Health Community Memorial Hospital of Missouri Valley, Iowa Missouri Valley 43% below 250 of 347 96 of 347
3. Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital Council Bluffs 30% below 237 of 345 106 of 345
4. Buena Vista Regional Medical Center Storm Lake 12% below 206 of 278 66 of 278
5. St Luke'sJones Regional Medical Center Anamosa 7% below 239 of 440 22 of 440
6. MercyOne Genesis Davenport West Medical Center Davenport 6% below 168 of 297 114 of 297
7. Allen Hospital Waterloo at median 214 of 440 16 of 440
8. Grinnell Regional Medical Center Grinnell at median 200 of 440 28 of 440
9. St Luke's Methodist Hospital Cedar Rapids at median 206 of 440 27 of 440
10. St Lukes Regional Medical Center Sioux City at median 209 of 440 24 of 440
11. The Finley Hospital Dubuque at median 206 of 440 21 of 440
12. Trinity Medical Center Bettendorf at median 202 of 440 28 of 440
13. Trinity Regional Medical Center Fort Dodge at median 206 of 440 22 of 440
14. Unity Healthcare Muscatine at median 202 of 440 28 of 440
15. UnityPoint Health - Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medical Des Moines at median 200 of 440 31 of 440
16. UnityPoint Health Marshalltown Marshalltown at median 212 of 440 16 of 440
17. MercyOne Genesis DeWitt Medical Center Dewitt at median 122 of 253 109 of 253
18. MercyOne Genesis Davenport Medical Center Davenport 4% above 111 of 303 169 of 303
19. MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center Mason City 12% above 132 of 392 233 of 392
20. MercyOne Waterloo Medical Center Waterloo 12% above 124 of 391 237 of 391
21. Gundersen Palmer Lutheran Hospital and Clinic West Union 16% above 100 of 296 190 of 296
22. Winneshiek Medical Center Decorah 19% above 116 of 391 269 of 391
23. CHI Health Mercy Council Bluffs Council Bluffs 20% above 120 of 319 195 of 319
24. Mercy Medical Center - New Hampton New Hampton 35% above 74 of 292 198 of 292
25. Central Community Hospital Elkader 37% above 48 of 251 182 of 251
26. Mercy Medical Center - Dyersville Dyersville 39% above 38 of 195 142 of 195
27. MercyOne Oelwein Medical Center Oelwein 42% above 42 of 234 177 of 234
28. MercyOne Clinton Medical Center Clinton 43% above 85 of 332 232 of 332
29. Sartori Memorial Hospital Cedar Falls 45% above 57 of 269 200 of 269
30. Mercy Medical Center - Newton Newton 49% above 41 of 277 217 of 277
31. MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center Des Moines 51% above 95 of 367 261 of 367
32. St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, Centerville Centerville 63% above 63 of 322 244 of 322
33. Mercy Medical Center - Dubuque Dubuque 76% above 43 of 315 262 of 315
34. Sanford Sheldon Medical Center Sheldon 81% above 27 of 267 236 of 267
35. Avera Merrill Pioneer Rock Rapids 93% above 31 of 181 149 of 181
36. Avera Holy Family Hospital Estherville 100% above 31 of 207 175 of 207
37. Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa West Des Moines 209% above 41 of 291 243 of 291

Cheapest hospitals by metro area in Iowa

How the ranking works

  • For every procedure, we take the hospital's lowest outpatient cash price and compare it with the median of all Iowa hospitals that publish a cash price for the same code (only codes with at least three hospitals in the state).
  • "Typical price" is the middle of those comparisons: half of the hospital's procedures are cheaper than that, half are dearer. One expensive surgery does not outweigh a hundred cheap lab tests, and the other way round.
  • Hospitals with fewer than 30 comparable procedures are left out: with a handful of codes the place would be decided by chance.
  • Prices far below every other hospital are worth a phone call: some price files list only part of a service (for example the facility fee without the doctor's fee), or a discount that depends on income.
  • A low rank does not mean every price is low. Open the hospital to see the procedure you need, then ask its billing office for a Good Faith Estimate in writing.