Muscle & Joint Symptoms Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals
Pain or other symptoms in the muscles, bones, or joints that need hospital evaluation. The stay usually involves imaging and tests to find the cause, along with pain management.
State average
$22,300
gross charge · DRG 556
Hospitals
10
with published pricing
Price range
$4,511 – $36,316
low to high
Data notes for Missouri
- The lowest published charge ($4,511 at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital) is unusually low for an inpatient stay. This may reflect a data-quality issue in the hospital's MRF rather than an actual price — verify directly with the hospital before relying on it.
Hospitals ranked by gross charge
- 1
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital
Creve Coeur, MO
Gross charge $4,511Cash pay $2,706 - 2
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Springfield, MO
Gross charge $12,459Medicare pays (avg) $5,459 - 3
Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $19,028Cash pay $10,466 - 4
University Health Lakewood Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge $19,028Cash pay $10,466 - 5
Parkland Health Center
Farmington, MO
Gross charge $19,785Cash pay $11,871 - 6
Christian Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $22,021Cash pay $13,213 - 7
Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital
Saint Peters, MO
Gross charge $25,668Cash pay $15,401 - 8
Missouri Baptist Medical Center
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge $28,106Cash pay $16,864 - 9
Mercy Hospital Southeast
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge $36,081Cash pay $23,453 - 10
Progress West Hospital
Ofallon, MO
Gross charge $36,316Cash pay $21,789 - 11
Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MO
Gross charge — - 12
Northeast Regional Medical Center
Kirksville, MO
Gross charge — - 13
Research Medical Center (Acute Care)
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 14
Moberly Regional Medical Center
Moberly, MO
Gross charge — - 15
St. Joseph Medical Center
Kansas City, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,159 - 16
Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)
Independence, MO
Gross charge — - 17
Nkc Health
North Kansas City, MO
Gross charge — - 18
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center
Poplar Bluff, MO
Gross charge — - 19
University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, MO
Gross charge — - 20
Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare
Clinton, MO
Gross charge — - 21
Liberty Hospital
Liberty, MO
Gross charge — - 22
Lee's Summit Medical Center
Lees Summit, MO
Gross charge — - 23
St. Mary's Medical Center
Blue Springs, MO
Gross charge —Cash pay $7,251 - 24
Citizens Memorial Hospital
Bolivar, MO
Gross charge — - 25
Belton Regional Medical Center
Belton, MO
Gross charge — - 26
Lafayette Regional Health Center
Lexington, MO
Gross charge — - 27
Cass Regional Medical Center
Harrisonville, MO
Gross charge — - 28
Mosaic Medical Center - Albany
Albany, MO
Gross charge — - 29
Mosaic Medical Center Maryville
Maryville, MO
Gross charge — - 30
Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City
Jefferson City, MO
Gross charge — - 31
Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)
Columbia, MO
Gross charge — - 32
SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 33
SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis
Bridgeton, MO
Gross charge — - 34
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital
Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge — - 35
Saint Francis Medical Center
Cape Girardeau, MO
Gross charge — - 36
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis
Lake Saint Louis, MO
Gross charge —
Missouri hospitals price muscle & joint symptoms (Medicare DRG 556) anywhere from $4,511 to $36,316 — a $31,805 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital in Creve Coeur; the most expensive is Progress West Hospital in Ofallon. The state average sits at $22,300.
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 & 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 & 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 & joint symptoms in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 556 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.