Back & Neck Surgery (Non-Fusion) Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals
An operation on the back or neck that does not fuse bones of the spine together, such as removing part of a damaged disc or relieving pressure on a nerve. Patients are usually up and walking soon after surgery, with a short recovery stay.
State average
$53,108
gross charge · DRG 520
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$22,409 – $64,632
low to high
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Springfield, MO
Gross charge $22,409 - 2
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Creve Coeur, MO
Gross charge $55,676Cash pay $33,406 - 3
Christian Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $57,973Cash pay $34,784 - 4
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $58,000Cash pay $34,800 - 5
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Saint Peters, MO
Gross charge $59,956Cash pay $35,973 - 6
Mercy Hospital Southeast
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge $64,632Cash pay $42,011 - 7
Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MO
Gross charge — - 8
Northeast Regional Medical Center
Kirksville, MO
Gross charge — - 9
Research Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 10
Moberly Regional Medical Center
Moberly, MO
Gross charge — - 11
St. Joseph Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $12,567 - 12
Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)
Independence, MO
Gross charge — - 13
Nkc Health
North Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 14
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, MO
Gross charge — - 15
University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, MO
Gross charge — - 16
Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare
Clinton, MO
Gross charge — - 17
Liberty Hospital
Liberty, MO
Gross charge — - 18
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge — - 19
St. Mary's Medical Center
Blue Springs, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $12,696 - 20
Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO
Gross charge — - 21
Belton Regional Medical Center
Belton, MO
Gross charge — - 22
Lafayette Regional Health Center
Lexington, MO
Gross charge — - 23
Cass Regional Medical Center
Harrisonville, MO
Gross charge — - 24
Mosaic Medical Center - Albany
Albany, MO
Gross charge — - 25
Mosaic Medical Center Maryville
Maryville, MO
Gross charge — - 26
Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
Jefferson City, MO
Gross charge — - 27
Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)
Columbia, MO
Gross charge — - 28
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 29
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Bridgeton, MO
Gross charge — - 30
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 31
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge — - 32
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —
Missouri hospitals price back & neck surgery (non-fusion) (Medicare DRG 520) anywhere from $22,409 to $64,632 — a $42,224 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Mercy Hospital Springfield in Springfield; the most expensive is Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau. The state average sits at $53,108.
Gross charges are the hospital's list price for the facility part of your stay — the room, operating-room time, nursing, and equipment. Insurance plans negotiate substantial discounts, Medicare and Medicaid pay fixed federal rates, and uninsured patients can usually qualify for a cash-pay discount. But the gross charge still works as a useful benchmark: a hospital that lists back & neck surgery (non-fusion) at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in Missouri, sort the list below by price, then click each hospital name to see its quality profile — CMS overall star rating, surgical-safety measures, readmission rates, patient-experience scores. The cheapest hospital isn't always the right call. Teaching hospitals often charge more because they take complex cases, and a higher-rated community hospital may deliver equivalent outcomes for a straightforward case at a lower price. Use the price column to narrow the field; use the quality data to make the final call.
Pricing comes from each hospital's Machine-Readable File (MRF), published under the federal Hospital Price Transparency Rule. Missouri hospitals missing from the list either don't perform back & neck surgery (non-fusion) in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 520 in their most recent MRF, or fell below our data-quality thresholds (we filter out clearly erroneous entries like $0 charges). The list refreshes as hospitals update their files.