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Short-term acute care hospital · St. Louis, Missouri · 1,329 beds · CMS certification number 260032

Barnes-Jewish Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 5, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$3.8B
$3,820,818,547 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$3.7B
$3,709,677,497 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$111.1M
$111,141,050 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
2.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $588.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $3.8B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$2.5M (2023), −$50.4M (2024), $111.1M (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 6.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 22.1%.

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 with audit
$588.5M
$579.3M
1997
settled with audit
$629.4M
$638.2M
1998
reopened
$648.4M
$677.0M
1999
reopened
$650.8M
$696.0M
2000
reopened
$690.1M
$727.0M
2001
reopened
$780.3M
$785.7M
2002
reopened
$873.4M
$869.7M
2003
reopened
$912.9M
$903.1M
2004
reopened
$965.0M
$961.0M
2005
reopened
$1.0B
$1.0B
2006
reopened
$1.1B
$1.1B
2007
reopened
$1.2B
$1.2B
2008
reopened
$1.2B
$1.2B
2009
reopened
$1.3B
$1.3B
2010
reopened
$1.4B
$1.4B
2011
reopened
$1.5B
$1.5B
2012
reopened
$1.5B
$1.5B
2013
reopened
$1.6B
$1.6B
2014
reopened
$1.7B
$1.7B
2015
reopened
$1.7B
$1.7B
2016
reopened
$1.8B
$1.8B
2017
reopened
$1.9B
$1.9B
2018
reopened
$2.0B
$2.0B
2019
reopened
$2.2B
$2.1B
2020
settled with audit
$2.1B
$2.2B
2021
settled with audit
$2.3B
$2.4B
2022
settled with audit
$2.4B
$2.5B
2023
amended
$2.7B
$2.7B
2024
amended
$3.2B
$3.3B
2025
as submitted
$3.8B
$3.7B

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Barnes-Jewish Hospital1,329$3,820,818,547$3,709,677,4972.9%
Cox Medical Centers, Springfield771$1,762,535,748$1,883,874,656−6.9%
Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis782$1,574,806,278$1,414,513,28310.2%
Mercy Hospital South, Saint Louis748$658,639,494$633,817,3123.8%
Mercy Hospital Springfield, Springfield621$1,372,051,750$1,223,349,34510.8%
University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia657$1,861,752,622$1,842,475,7981.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
55,735
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
394,453
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
1083.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
81.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
22.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.1%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: BJC HEALTHCARE, health care; BJC STAFFING AGENCY, temporary staffing; JOINT VENTURE (50%), telecommunications; JOINT VENTURE (50%), neuro-surgical procedures; MIDWEST STONE (50%), lithotripsy procedures.

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260032. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read June 5, 2026.