Heart Attack Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) with complications — discharged alive.
What this hospital charge usually covers
The gross-charge number above is the hospital's facility bill for heart attack. Here's what's typically inside that price (typical inpatient stay: 3–5 days):
Included in the hospital bill
- Emergency department evaluation and cardiac workup
- Inpatient cardiac monitoring (often in a coronary care unit)
- Diagnostic catheterization and any required stenting
- Inpatient medications and routine labs during admission
Usually billed separately
- Cardiologist, ED physician, and any interventional specialist professional fees
- Ambulance transport
- Outpatient cardiac rehab and follow-up visits after discharge
- Long-term medications (antiplatelets, statins, beta-blockers)
Quality signals to check before picking a hospital
Price alone won't tell you which hospital does heart attack best. These are the CMS quality measures that matter most for this specific procedure. Click any hospital below for its full profile, then look for these:
Heart-Attack Mortality (30-day)
The single most important quality signal — how often patients survive 30 days after a heart attack at this hospital.
Time to Fibrinolysis (STEMI)
For ST-elevation heart attacks treated with clot-busting drugs, every minute counts. Tracks median minutes from arrival to treatment.
Heart-Attack Readmissions
Reflects discharge planning, medication reconciliation, and outpatient cardiology handoff.
When the cheapest hospital may not be the best fit
The list below sorts by price. For heart attack, the lowest price isn't automatically the best fit — these are situations where it's worth weighing additional factors against price. None of the below is medical advice; talk to your doctor about what applies to your specific situation.
- Heart-attack admissions aren't shoppable in real time — in an emergency, the hospital that can get a patient to a cath lab fastest is typically the right call regardless of price.
- This page is more useful after discharge to evaluate where care was delivered, or ahead of time for chronic-condition planning.
Questions to ask your hospital or insurer
The gross charge is the starting point. These are the procedure-specific questions to ask before you commit:
- During an active heart attack: skip this list and call 911 — go to the nearest hospital with a cardiac cath lab.
- After discharge: was every physician who treated me in-network? (ED, cardiologist, interventionalist, hospitalist often bill separately.)
- What outpatient cardiac rehab program is recommended? Is it covered?
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Creve Coeur, MO
Gross charge $8,719Cash pay $5,231 - 2
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $10,394Cash pay $5,717 - 3
University Health Lakewood Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $10,394Cash pay $5,717 - 4
Fitzgibbon Hospital
Marshall, MO
Gross charge $11,261Cash pay $9,009 - 5
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Springfield, MO
Gross charge $13,787Medicare pays (avg) $6,052 - 6
Parkland Health Center
Farmington, MO
Gross charge $32,515Cash pay $19,509 - 7
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $39,976Cash pay $23,985Medicare pays (avg) $4,817 - 8
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Saint Peters, MO
Gross charge $42,274Cash pay $25,364 - 9
Progress West Hospital
Ofallon, MO
Gross charge $45,245Cash pay $27,147 - 10
Mercy Hospital Southeast
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge $46,148Cash pay $29,996 - 11
Christian Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $47,581Cash pay $28,549 - 12
Lake Regional Hospital
Osage Beach, MO
Gross charge $51,686Cash pay $19,641Medicare pays (avg) $6,091 - 13
Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,079 - 14
Northeast Regional Medical Center
Kirksville, MO
Gross charge — - 15
Research Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 16
Moberly Regional Medical Center
Moberly, MO
Gross charge — - 17
St. Joseph Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,083 - 18
Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)
Independence, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,613 - 19
Nkc Health
North Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,924 - 20
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,602 - 21
University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,038 - 22
Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare
Clinton, MO
Gross charge — - 23
Liberty Hospital
Liberty, MO
Gross charge — - 24
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge — - 25
St. Mary's Medical Center
Blue Springs, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $8,180 - 26
Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO
Gross charge — - 27
Belton Regional Medical Center
Belton, MO
Gross charge — - 28
Lafayette Regional Health Center
Lexington, MO
Gross charge — - 29
Cass Regional Medical Center
Harrisonville, MO
Gross charge — - 30
Mosaic Medical Center - Albany
Albany, MO
Gross charge — - 31
Mosaic Medical Center Maryville
Maryville, MO
Gross charge — - 32
Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
Jefferson City, MO
Gross charge — - 33
Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)
Columbia, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $4,172 - 34
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 35
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Bridgeton, MO
Gross charge — - 36
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 37
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge — - 38
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $5,284
Missouri hospitals price heart attack (Medicare DRG 281) anywhere from $8,719 to $51,686 — a $42,967 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur; the most expensive is Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach. The state average sits at $29,998.
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 heart attack at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.
If you're scheduling heart attack 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 heart attack in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 281 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.