Cellulitis Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals
A spreading infection of the skin and the tissue beneath it. The hospital stay involves intravenous antibiotics and close monitoring, along with treatment of other serious health problems occurring at the same time.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $18,130Cash pay $9,972 - 2
University Health Lakewood Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $18,130Cash pay $9,972 - 3
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $18,739Cash pay $11,243 - 4
Saint Luke's East Hospital
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge $18,739Cash pay $11,243Medicare pays (avg) $6,961 - 5
Wright Memorial Hospital
Trenton, MO
Gross charge $18,739Cash pay $11,243 - 6
Hedrick Medical Center
Chillicothe, MO
Gross charge $18,739Cash pay $11,243 - 7
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Creve Coeur, MO
Gross charge $19,409Cash pay $11,645 - 8
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Springfield, MO
Gross charge $21,320Medicare pays (avg) $9,286 - 9
Fitzgibbon Hospital
Marshall, MO
Gross charge $21,799Cash pay $17,439 - 10
Parkland Health Center
Farmington, MO
Gross charge $33,014Cash pay $19,808 - 11
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Saint Peters, MO
Gross charge $35,283Cash pay $21,170 - 12
Mercy Hospital Southeast
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge $37,282Cash pay $24,233 - 13
Christian Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $37,455Cash pay $22,473 - 14
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $39,184Cash pay $23,511Medicare pays (avg) $7,602 - 15
Progress West Hospital
Ofallon, MO
Gross charge $44,795Cash pay $26,877 - 16
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
Sullivan, MO
Gross charge $47,398Cash pay $28,439 - 17
Lake Regional Hospital
Osage Beach, MO
Gross charge $66,346Cash pay $25,212 - 18
Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,417 - 19
Northeast Regional Medical Center
Kirksville, MO
Gross charge — - 20
Research Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 21
Moberly Regional Medical Center
Moberly, MO
Gross charge — - 22
St. Joseph Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $12,883Medicare pays (avg) $8,484 - 23
Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)
Independence, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,301 - 24
Nkc Health
North Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,448 - 25
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, MO
Gross charge — - 26
University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,320 - 27
Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare
Clinton, MO
Gross charge — - 28
Liberty Hospital
Liberty, MO
Gross charge — - 29
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge — - 30
St. Mary's Medical Center
Blue Springs, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $13,014 - 31
Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO
Gross charge — - 32
Belton Regional Medical Center
Belton, MO
Gross charge — - 33
Lafayette Regional Health Center
Lexington, MO
Gross charge — - 34
Cass Regional Medical Center
Harrisonville, MO
Gross charge — - 35
Mosaic Medical Center - Albany
Albany, MO
Gross charge — - 36
Mosaic Medical Center Maryville
Maryville, MO
Gross charge — - 37
Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
Jefferson City, MO
Gross charge — - 38
Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)
Columbia, MO
Gross charge — - 39
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 40
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Bridgeton, MO
Gross charge — - 41
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 42
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge — - 43
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —
Missouri hospitals price cellulitis (Medicare DRG 602) anywhere from $18,130 to $66,346 — a $48,216 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill in Kansas City; the most expensive is Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach. The state average sits at $30,265.
Gross charges are list prices, not what most patients pay. 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 cellulitis at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
You usually don't choose a hospital during an urgent cellulitis admission. This page is for the planning side: patients with chronic conditions weighing their options, caregivers picking ahead of time, or employers comparing in-network facilities. Click any hospital name for its full quality profile — CMS overall star rating, mortality and readmission rates, patient-experience scores. When two nearby hospitals look similar on quality, the one with lower published charges is the safer default for routine medical admissions.
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 cellulitis in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 602 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.