DRG 555 · Musculoskeletal

Muscle, Bone & Joint Symptoms Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals

A hospital stay to evaluate symptoms such as joint pain, muscle weakness, or limb and back problems when the cause is not yet clear. Care typically involves imaging, lab tests, and pain management while doctors search for the underlying cause.

State average
$37,240
gross charge · DRG 555
Hospitals
6
with published pricing
Price range
$12,946 – $42,099
low to high
Lowest $12,946 Highest $42,099

Missouri hospitals price muscle, bone & joint symptoms (Medicare DRG 555) anywhere from $12,946 to $42,099 — a $29,153 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Mercy Hospital Southeast in Cape Girardeau; the most expensive is Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital in Sullivan. The state average sits at $37,240.

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 muscle, bone & joint symptoms at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling muscle, bone & joint symptoms 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 muscle, bone & joint symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 555 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

    Mercy Hospital Southeast

    Cape Girardeau, MO

    Gross charge $12,946
    Cash pay $8,415
  2. 2

    Missouri Baptist Medical Center

    Saint Louis, MO

    Gross charge $42,099
    Cash pay $25,259
  3. 3

    Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital

    Creve Coeur, MO

    Gross charge $42,099
    Cash pay $25,259
  4. 4

    Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital

    Saint Peters, MO

    Gross charge $42,099
    Cash pay $25,259
  5. 5

    Progress West Hospital

    Ofallon, MO

    Gross charge $42,099
    Cash pay $25,259
  6. 6

    Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital

    Sullivan, MO

    Gross charge $42,099
    Cash pay $25,259
  7. 7

    Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph

    Saint Joseph, MO

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  8. 8

    Northeast Regional Medical Center

    Kirksville, MO

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  9. 9

    Moberly Regional Medical Center

    Moberly, MO

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  10. 10

    St. Joseph Medical Center

    Kansas City, MO

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $11,808
  11. 11

    Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Independence, MO

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  12. 12

    Nkc Health

    North Kansas City, MO

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  13. 13

    Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center

    Poplar Bluff, MO

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  14. 14

    University of Missouri Health Care

    Columbia, MO

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  15. 15

    Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare

    Clinton, MO

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  16. 16

    Liberty Hospital

    Liberty, MO

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  17. 17

    Lee's Summit Medical Center

    Lees Summit, MO

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  18. 18

    St. Mary's Medical Center

    Blue Springs, MO

    Gross charge
    Cash pay $11,932
  19. 19

    Citizens Memorial Hospital

    Bolivar, MO

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  20. 20

    Belton Regional Medical Center

    Belton, MO

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  21. 21

    Lafayette Regional Health Center

    Lexington, MO

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  22. 22

    Cass Regional Medical Center

    Harrisonville, MO

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  25. 25

    Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

    Jefferson City, MO

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  26. 26

    Research Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Kansas City, MO

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  27. 27

    Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)

    Columbia, MO

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  28. 28

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

    Saint Louis, MO

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  29. 29

    SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis

    Bridgeton, MO

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  30. 30

    SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

    Saint Louis, MO

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  31. 31

    Saint Francis Medical Center

    Cape Girardeau, MO

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  32. 32

    SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

    Lake Saint Louis, MO

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