Heart Failure Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals
Hospitalization for heart failure with major comorbidities or complications, often involving fluid overload, low ejection fraction, or arrhythmia.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $13,219Cash pay $7,271Medicare pays (avg) $22,977 - 2
University Health Lakewood Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $13,219Cash pay $7,271Medicare pays (avg) $22,657 - 3
Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $18,585Cash pay $11,151Medicare pays (avg) $8,712 - 4
Saint Luke's East Hospital
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge $18,585Cash pay $11,151Medicare pays (avg) $6,958 - 5
Wright Memorial Hospital
Trenton, MO
Gross charge $18,585Cash pay $11,151 - 6
Hedrick Medical Center
Chillicothe, MO
Gross charge $18,585Cash pay $11,151 - 7
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Springfield, MO
Gross charge $19,257Medicare pays (avg) $8,493 - 8
Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital
Sullivan, MO
Gross charge $19,815Cash pay $11,889 - 9
Fitzgibbon Hospital
Marshall, MO
Gross charge $22,344Cash pay $17,875Medicare pays (avg) $10,542 - 10
Mercy Hospital Southeast
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge $28,871Cash pay $18,766Medicare pays (avg) $8,345 - 11
Parkland Health Center
Farmington, MO
Gross charge $28,964Cash pay $17,378Medicare pays (avg) $8,544 - 12
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Creve Coeur, MO
Gross charge $34,001Cash pay $20,401Medicare pays (avg) $7,273 - 13
Progress West Hospital
Ofallon, MO
Gross charge $38,330Cash pay $22,998Medicare pays (avg) $7,900 - 14
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Saint Peters, MO
Gross charge $40,651Cash pay $24,391Medicare pays (avg) $7,098 - 15
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $41,480Cash pay $24,888Medicare pays (avg) $7,045 - 16
Christian Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $41,577Cash pay $24,946Medicare pays (avg) $10,000 - 17
Lake Regional Hospital
Osage Beach, MO
Gross charge $43,249Cash pay $16,435Medicare pays (avg) $9,941 - 18
Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,781 - 19
Northeast Regional Medical Center
Kirksville, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $13,332 - 20
Research Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,939 - 21
Moberly Regional Medical Center
Moberly, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,307 - 22
St. Joseph Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $11,441Medicare pays (avg) $7,467 - 23
Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)
Independence, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,113 - 24
Nkc Health
North Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,295 - 25
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,350 - 26
University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $10,177 - 27
Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare
Clinton, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,961 - 28
Liberty Hospital
Liberty, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,822 - 29
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,324 - 30
St. Mary's Medical Center
Blue Springs, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $11,562Medicare pays (avg) $7,623 - 31
Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $9,984 - 32
Belton Regional Medical Center
Belton, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,644 - 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 —Medicare pays (avg) $7,825 - 38
Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)
Columbia, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $6,836 - 39
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $11,266 - 40
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Bridgeton, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,827 - 41
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $12,899 - 42
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $8,839 - 43
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —Medicare pays (avg) $7,681
Missouri hospitals price heart failure (Medicare DRG 291) anywhere from $13,219 to $43,249 — a $30,030 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 $27,019.
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 heart failure 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 heart failure 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 heart failure in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 291 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.