DRG 291 · Cardiovascular

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.

State average
$27,019
gross charge · DRG 291
Hospitals
17
with published pricing
Price range
$13,219 – $43,249
low to high
Lowest $13,219 Highest $43,249

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.

Hospitals ranked by gross charge

  1. 1

    Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill

    Kansas City, MO

    32 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $13,219
    Cash pay $7,271
    Medicare pays (avg) $22,977
  2. 2

    University Health Lakewood Medical Center

    Kansas City, MO

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $13,219
    Cash pay $7,271
    Medicare pays (avg) $22,657
  3. 3

    Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City

    Kansas City, MO

    162 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $18,585
    Cash pay $11,151
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,712
  4. 4

    Saint Luke's East Hospital

    Lees Summit, MO

    315 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $18,585
    Cash pay $11,151
    Medicare pays (avg) $6,958
  5. 5

    Wright Memorial Hospital

    Trenton, MO

    Gross charge $18,585
    Cash pay $11,151
  6. 6

    Hedrick Medical Center

    Chillicothe, MO

    Gross charge $18,585
    Cash pay $11,151
  7. 7

    Mercy Hospital Springfield

    Springfield, MO

    251 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $19,257
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,493
  8. 8

    Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital

    Sullivan, MO

    Gross charge $19,815
    Cash pay $11,889
  9. 9

    Fitzgibbon Hospital

    Marshall, MO

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $22,344
    Cash pay $17,875
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,542
  10. 10

    Mercy Hospital Southeast

    Cape Girardeau, MO

    94 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $28,871
    Cash pay $18,766
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,345
  11. 11

    Parkland Health Center

    Farmington, MO

    97 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $28,964
    Cash pay $17,378
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,544
  12. 12

    Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital

    Creve Coeur, MO

    34 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $34,001
    Cash pay $20,401
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,273
  13. 13

    Progress West Hospital

    Ofallon, MO

    40 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $38,330
    Cash pay $22,998
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,900
  14. 14

    Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital

    Saint Peters, MO

    130 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $40,651
    Cash pay $24,391
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,098
  15. 15

    Missouri Baptist Medical Center

    Saint Louis, MO

    361 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $41,480
    Cash pay $24,888
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,045
  16. 16

    Christian Hospital

    Saint Louis, MO

    210 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $41,577
    Cash pay $24,946
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,000
  17. 17

    Lake Regional Hospital

    Osage Beach, MO

    75 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $43,249
    Cash pay $16,435
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,941
  18. 18

    Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph

    Saint Joseph, MO

    227 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,781
  19. 19

    Northeast Regional Medical Center

    Kirksville, MO

    23 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $13,332
  20. 20

    Research Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Kansas City, MO

    83 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,939
  21. 21

    Moberly Regional Medical Center

    Moberly, MO

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,307
  22. 22

    St. Joseph Medical Center

    Kansas City, MO

    61 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $11,441
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,467
  23. 23

    Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Independence, MO

    102 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,113
  24. 24

    Nkc Health

    North Kansas City, MO

    260 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,295
  25. 25

    Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center

    Poplar Bluff, MO

    136 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,350
  26. 26

    University of Missouri Health Care

    Columbia, MO

    214 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $10,177
  27. 27

    Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare

    Clinton, MO

    28 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,961
  28. 28

    Liberty Hospital

    Liberty, MO

    110 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,822
  29. 29

    Lee's Summit Medical Center

    Lees Summit, MO

    61 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,324
  30. 30

    St. Mary's Medical Center

    Blue Springs, MO

    43 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $11,562
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,623
  31. 31

    Citizens Memorial Hospital

    Bolivar, MO

    23 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $9,984
  32. 32

    Belton Regional Medical Center

    Belton, MO

    25 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,644
  33. 33

    Lafayette Regional Health Center

    Lexington, MO

    Gross charge
  34. 34

    Cass Regional Medical Center

    Harrisonville, MO

    Gross charge
  35. 35
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  36. 36
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  37. 37

    Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

    Jefferson City, MO

    38 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,825
  38. 38

    Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)

    Columbia, MO

    177 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $6,836
  39. 39

    SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis

    Saint Louis, MO

    137 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $11,266
  40. 40

    SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis

    Bridgeton, MO

    142 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,827
  41. 41

    SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

    Saint Louis, MO

    60 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $12,899
  42. 42

    Saint Francis Medical Center

    Cape Girardeau, MO

    121 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $8,839
  43. 43

    SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

    Lake Saint Louis, MO

    147 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $7,681

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