Short-term acute care hospital · St. Louis, Missouri · 782 beds · CMS certification number 260020
Mercy Hospital St. Louis
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS July 14, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $286.4M in its first year on file (1997) to $1.6B in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: $186.9M (2023), $232.6M (2024), $160.3M (2025).
- 4 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 6.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 15.6%.
- MERCY HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
29 years of filings
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Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospital St. Louis | 782 | $1,574,806,278 | $1,414,513,283 | 10.2% |
| Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis | 1,329 | $3,820,818,547 | $3,709,677,497 | 2.9% |
| Cox Medical Centers, Springfield | 771 | $1,762,535,748 | $1,883,874,656 | −6.9% |
| Mercy Hospital South, Saint Louis | 748 | $658,639,494 | $633,817,312 | 3.8% |
| Mercy Hospital Springfield, Springfield | 621 | $1,372,051,750 | $1,223,349,345 | 10.8% |
| University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia | 657 | $1,861,752,622 | $1,842,475,798 | 1.0% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 49,752S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 229,067S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 629.3days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 80.3%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 15.6%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 6.6%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- MERCY HEALTH100%
- MERCY HEALTH EAST COMMUNITIES100%
Related organizations on its own cost report: MHEC, home office.
Other hospitals with the same owner: Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (AR), Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (AR), Mercy Hospital Paris (AR), Mercy Hospital Ozark (AR), Mercy Hospital Waldron (AR), Mercy Hospital Booneville (AR), Mercy Hospital Berryville (AR).
Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, church.
Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).
Community benefit, as filed
Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by MERCY HOSPITALS EAST COMMUNITIES (employer identification number 430653493) for tax year 2022, once for the 2 hospital facilities the return lists, this hospital among them. The return does not divide it among them.
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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260020. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.
How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read July 14, 2026.