DRG 321 · Musculoskeletal

Neck Fusion & Other Back Surgery Cost in Missouri — Compare All Hospitals

Surgery to join (fuse) bones in the neck, or other operations on the back or neck, not including disc removal or nerve decompression. The stay covers the operation, pain control, and early recovery.

State average
$101,462
gross charge · DRG 321
Hospitals
7
with published pricing
Price range
$99,374 – $113,873
low to high
Lowest $99,374 Highest $113,873

Missouri hospitals price neck fusion & other back surgery (Medicare DRG 321) anywhere from $99,374 to $113,873 — a $14,500 gap between the cheapest and most expensive option. The cheapest is Missouri Baptist Medical Center in Saint Louis; the most expensive is Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach. The state average sits at $101,462.

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 neck fusion & other back surgery at twice the price of another typically negotiates higher rates with insurers too, and quotes more for uninsured patients.

If you're scheduling neck fusion & other back surgery 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 neck fusion & other back surgery in volume, haven't published a usable price for DRG 321 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

    Missouri Baptist Medical Center

    Saint Louis, MO

    29 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $99,374
    Cash pay $59,624
    Medicare pays (avg) $15,771
  2. 2

    Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital

    Creve Coeur, MO

    Gross charge $99,374
    Cash pay $59,624
  3. 3

    Barnes-Jewish St. Peters Hospital

    Saint Peters, MO

    Gross charge $99,374
    Cash pay $59,624
  4. 4

    Progress West Hospital

    Ofallon, MO

    Gross charge $99,374
    Cash pay $59,624
  5. 5

    Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital

    Sullivan, MO

    Gross charge $99,374
    Cash pay $59,624
  6. 6

    Mercy Hospital Southeast

    Cape Girardeau, MO

    Gross charge $99,490
    Cash pay $64,669
  7. 7

    Lake Regional Hospital

    Osage Beach, MO

    18 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge $113,873
    Cash pay $43,272
    Medicare pays (avg) $23,070
  8. 8

    Mosaic Life Care at St Joseph

    Saint Joseph, MO

    32 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $26,228
  9. 9

    Northeast Regional Medical Center

    Kirksville, MO

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  10. 10

    Moberly Regional Medical Center

    Moberly, MO

    Gross charge
  11. 11

    St. Joseph Medical Center

    Kansas City, MO

    16 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $24,963
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,037
  12. 12

    Centerpoint Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Independence, MO

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,313
  13. 13

    Nkc Health

    North Kansas City, MO

    27 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,608
  14. 14

    Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center

    Poplar Bluff, MO

    20 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $18,315
  15. 15

    University of Missouri Health Care

    Columbia, MO

    19 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $26,136
  16. 16

    Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare

    Clinton, MO

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  17. 17

    Liberty Hospital

    Liberty, MO

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,840
  18. 18

    Lee's Summit Medical Center

    Lees Summit, MO

    13 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $18,057
  19. 19

    St. Mary's Medical Center

    Blue Springs, MO

    16 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Cash pay $25,179
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,019
  20. 20

    Citizens Memorial Hospital

    Bolivar, MO

    15 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $22,877
  21. 21

    Belton Regional Medical Center

    Belton, MO

    Gross charge
  22. 22

    Lafayette Regional Health Center

    Lexington, MO

    Gross charge
  23. 23

    Cass Regional Medical Center

    Harrisonville, MO

    Gross charge
  24. 24
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  25. 25
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  26. 26

    Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson City

    Jefferson City, MO

    Gross charge
  27. 27

    Research Medical Center (Acute Care)

    Kansas City, MO

    11 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $26,028
  28. 28

    Boone Hospital Center (Acute Care)

    Columbia, MO

    39 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $17,060
  29. 29

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

    Saint Louis, MO

    Gross charge
  30. 30

    SSM Health DePaul Hospital - St. Louis

    Bridgeton, MO

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $19,858
  31. 31

    SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital

    Saint Louis, MO

    18 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $27,061
  32. 32

    Saint Francis Medical Center

    Cape Girardeau, MO

    18 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $20,200
  33. 33

    SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

    Lake Saint Louis, MO

    14 Medicare stays/yr
    Gross charge
    Medicare pays (avg) $16,473

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