Short-term acute care hospital · Springfield, Missouri · 771 beds · CMS certification number 260040
Cox Medical Centers
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 12, 2026. 30 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 $256.0M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.8B in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$69.2M (2023), −$79.8M (2024), −$121.3M (2025).
- None of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 7.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 16.6%.
- COXHEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
30 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cox Medical Centers | 771 | $1,762,535,748 | $1,883,874,656 | −6.9% |
| Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis | 1,329 | $3,820,818,547 | $3,709,677,497 | 2.9% |
| Mercy Hospital St. Louis, St. Louis | 782 | $1,574,806,278 | $1,414,513,283 | 10.2% |
| 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
- 32,655S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 176,737S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 485.5days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 62.8%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 16.6%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 7.1%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- COXHEALTH100%
Related organizations on its own cost report: ENTERPRISE LAUN, laundry service; COXHEALTH HO, home office; COX MONETT HOSP, hospital; COX MEDICAL CEN, hospital; COX BARTON COUN, hospital.
Other hospitals with the same owner: Cox Medical Center Branson (MO), Cox Barton County Hospital (MO), Cox Monett Hospital (MO).
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).
Community benefit, as filed
Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by LESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS (employer identification number 440577118) for tax year 2022, once for the 3 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260040. 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read March 12, 2026.