# Hip or knee replacement (no major complications) in Atlanta, GA

Billing code `470`. Prices for this code at 24 hospitals within 35 miles of Atlanta, taken from the machine-readable standard charge files each hospital is required to publish under the CMS Hospital Price Transparency Rule (45 CFR 180.50).

Source page: https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/atlanta/hip-or-knee-replacement-no-major-complications

Major Hip And Knee Joint Replacement Or Reattachment Of Lower Extremity Without Mcc

## Before quoting any figure below

- **Hospital charges only.** The surgeon, anaesthetist, radiologist and pathologist bill separately and appear in no hospital price file, by construction. Every figure below is part of a total, never the total.
- **A negotiated rate is not a bill.** It is what a hospital and an insurer agreed. What a patient owes depends on their deductible, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximum.
- **Each hospital's figure is a median across its own plans.** The spread inside one hospital is often wider than the gap between two of them.
- **"not mentioned" is not $0.** It means this hospital's file does not label a row that way. Silence is not a statement that the charge does not exist.
- **A hospital absent from the table says nothing about its prices.** It may publish this code under a revenue or drug code this site cannot map to a procedure.

A procedure code is billed twice -- once by the hospital for its own costs, once by the doctor for their work -- and hospitals publish different sides of that split under the same code. Of the hospitals here, 12 publish a facility charge; 12 do not label which half the figure is.

## Typical price

|  | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cheapest tenth | $6,294 |
| Typical | $19,838 |
| Dearest tenth | $23,060 |

The cheapest and dearest tenth are the hospitals a tenth of the way in from each end, not the single cheapest and dearest. Every hospital, including both extremes, is in the table below.

That is a 4-fold difference for the same billing code, between hospitals within 35 miles of each other -- a gap between hospitals, not between treatments.

## Every hospital publishing this code

| Hospital | Where | CMS rating | Typical | Facility charge | Physician fee | Self-pay | Lowest | Highest | Plans on file |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northside Hospital Gwinnett | LAWRENCEVILLE (25.8 mi) | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $43,642 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Forsyth | CUMMING (29.4 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $43,642 | 92 |
| Northside Hospital Duluth | DULUTH (15.5 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $43,642 | 94 |
| Northside Hospital | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $43,642 | 93 |
| Northside Hospital Cherokee | CANTON (25.4 mi) | 4/5 | $6,294 | not mentioned | not mentioned | not published | $1,150 | $43,642 | 93 |
| Grady Memorial Hospital | ATLANTA (6.1 mi) | 2/5 | $12,843 | $12,843 | not mentioned | not published | $3,500 | $41,481 | 27 |
| Piedmont Hospital | ATLANTA (3.0 mi) | 4/5 | $14,881 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $30,875 | $2 | $53,746 | 25 |
| WellStar Paulding Medical Center | HIRAM (23.5 mi) | 4/5 | $15,030 | $15,030 | not mentioned | not published | $14,046 | $75,616 | 23 |
| WellStar North Fulton Medical Center | ROSWELL (13.5 mi) | 2/5 | $15,139 | $15,139 | not mentioned | not published | $14,148 | $75,616 | 24 |
| Piedmont Fayette Hospital | FAYETTEVILLE (25.0 mi) | 3/5 | $16,750 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $41,264 | $7,561 | $53,746 | 25 |
| Piedmont Henry Hospital | STOCKBRIDGE (21.0 mi) | 2/5 | $17,470 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $41,332 | $7,561 | $53,746 | 25 |
| Piedmont Rockdale Hospital | CONYERS (22.2 mi) | 3/5 | $18,161 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $44,229 | $1,900 | $45,823 | 26 |
| Southern Regional Medical Center | RIVERDALE (19.7 mi) | 1/5 | $19,838 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $19,728 | $12,303 | $34,524 | 46 |
| WellStar Douglas Medical Center | DOUGLASVILLE (24.5 mi) | 3/5 | $19,855 | $19,855 | not mentioned | not published | $18,556 | $75,616 | 24 |
| WellStar Cobb Medical Center | AUSTELL (15.4 mi) | 3/5 | $21,327 | $21,327 | not mentioned | not published | $19,932 | $75,616 | 24 |
| WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center | MARIETTA (12.1 mi) | 4/5 | $21,457 | $21,457 | not mentioned | not published | $20,053 | $75,616 | 24 |
| Piedmont Eastside Medical Center | SNELLVILLE (19.7 mi) | 2/5 | $21,475 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $38,541 | $16,107 | $53,746 | 24 |
| Emory Hillandale Hospital | LITHONIA (16.0 mi) | 1/5 | $22,198 | $22,198 | not mentioned | not published | $19,446 | $44,607 | 22 |
| Emory Johns Creek Hospital | JOHNS CREEK (17.9 mi) | 4/5 | $22,801 | $22,801 | not mentioned | not published | $14,040 | $40,029 | 24 |
| Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta | ATLANTA (3.2 mi) | 3/5 | $22,801 | $22,801 | not mentioned | not published | $13,996 | $40,029 | 24 |
| Emory Decatur Hospital | DECATUR (4.8 mi) | 2/5 | $22,801 | $22,801 | not mentioned | not published | $17,930 | $40,029 | 24 |
| Emory University Hospital | ATLANTA (3.6 mi) | 4/5 | $23,171 | $23,171 | not mentioned | not published | $19,043 | $40,372 | 24 |
| Emory University Hospital Midtown | ATLANTA (4.7 mi) | 2/5 | $23,539 | $23,539 | not mentioned | not published | $19,446 | $41,845 | 24 |
| Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica | VILLA RICA (33.1 mi) | 3/5 | $47,143 | not mentioned | not mentioned | $41,905 | $5,986 | $64,254 | 16 |

## Self-pay

Self-pay is what the hospital charges someone paying themselves rather than through insurance. Paying self-pay usually does not count toward a deductible, so it can cost less for one service and more across a year. Every other figure here is what an insurer pays, not what a patient would.

At 2 of the 7 hospitals here that publish a self-pay price it is LOWER than what that same hospital typically accepts from an insurer; at the other 5 it is higher.

1 of these 24 hospitals have not published an updated price file in over a year, or do not say when they last did. Hospitals are required to update at least annually, so those figures may not reflect what they charge now: Tanner Medical Center Villa Rica.

## Others in inpatient stays (drg)

- [Uterus or ovary surgery, non-cancer (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/uterus-or-ovary-surgery-non-cancer-no-complications) -- 84 hospitals, typically $11,778
- [Neck spinal fusion (no complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/neck-spinal-fusion-no-complications) -- 80 hospitals, typically $21,105
- [Heart valve surgery with cardiac catheterisation (with major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/heart-valve-surgery-with-cardiac-catheterisation-with-major) -- 77 hospitals, typically $76,817
- [Back spinal fusion (no major complications)](https://clearcharge.org/price/ga/back-spinal-fusion-no-major-complications) -- 33 hospitals, typically $38,620

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Compiled by Clearcharge (clearcharge.org) from each hospital's machine-readable standard-charge file. When quoting a figure, cite the source page above. The hospital files behind these figures state data through dates from 2024-07-01 to 2026-07-01; per-hospital staleness is flagged above.