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Short-term acute care hospital · Festus, Missouri · 188 beds · CMS certification number 260023

Mercy Hospital Jefferson

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 8, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$281.1M
$281,118,579 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$265.9M
$265,941,436 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$15.2M
$15,177,143 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
5.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $56.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $281.1M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $13.6M (2023), $11.0M (2024), $15.2M (2025).
  • 3 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 10.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 22.0%.
  • MERCY HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

30 years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
settled
$56.5M
$55.8M
1997
settled with audit
$66.4M
$63.1M
1998
reopened
$71.8M
$70.7M
1999
settled
$73.1M
$73.8M
2000
settled
$71.0M
$72.9M
2001
settled
$74.9M
$76.5M
2002
settled
$74.9M
$77.2M
2003
settled
$75.7M
$78.6M
2004
settled
$85.5M
$87.9M
2005
reopened
$93.5M
$94.7M
2006
reopened
$97.7M
$99.9M
2007
settled
$99.7M
$101.7M
2008
settled with audit
$107.0M
$104.2M
2009
settled with audit
$117.5M
$112.0M
2010
reopened
$119.7M
$115.3M
2011
reopened
$116.7M
$118.2M
2012
reopened
$121.5M
$124.1M
2013
reopened
$96.4M
$94.0M
2014
reopened
$130.0M
$130.4M
2015
settled
$142.9M
$138.5M
2016
reopened
$159.5M
$151.6M
2017
reopened
$162.0M
$153.2M
2018
reopened
$184.7M
$172.9M
2019
settled
$188.8M
$181.0M
2020
settled
$198.9M
$198.7M
2021
settled
$191.8M
$175.1M
2022
settled
−$118.7M
$190.3M
2023
settled
$196.8M
$183.2M
2024
settled
$236.8M
$225.8M
2025
as submitted
$281.1M
$265.9M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Hospital Jefferson188$281,118,579$265,941,4365.4%
Liberty Hospital, Liberty199$293,928,181$330,726,535−12.5%
Mercy Hospital Washington, Washington158$229,187,087$197,507,08413.8%
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center, Poplar Bluff177$264,024,599$224,355,72515.0%
SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton, Fenton180$263,296,853$263,136,9670.1%
SSM Health St. Marys Hospital Jefferson City, Jefferson City154$164,440,717$186,005,130−13.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
12,081
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
47,440
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
130.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
69.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
22.0%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
10.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCY HEALTH100%
  • MERCY HEALTH EAST COMMUNITIES100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: HHA (100%), health care; HOSPICE (100%), health care; PRIVATE DUTY (100%), health care; AMBULANCE (100%), health care.

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, other.

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260023. 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 December 8, 2025.