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Short-term acute care hospital · Saint Louis, Missouri · 748 beds · CMS certification number 260077

Mercy Hospital South

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 9, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$658.6M
$658,639,494 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$633.8M
$633,817,312 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$24.8M
$24,822,182 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
3.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $188.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $658.6M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$6.8M (2023), $19.0M (2024), $24.8M (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 6.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 20.8%.
  • 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

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled
$188.5M
$180.6M
1998
settled
$201.2M
$191.1M
1999
settled
$209.1M
$211.1M
2000
reopened
$214.0M
$236.2M
2001
settled with audit
$246.4M
$262.8M
2002
settled with audit
$268.1M
$297.7M
2003
settled
$283.8M
$290.9M
2004
settled
$305.7M
$308.5M
2005
settled
$325.1M
$330.8M
2006
reopened
$342.6M
$346.4M
2007
reopened
$366.5M
$379.4M
2008
settled
$391.9M
$413.5M
2009
settled
$409.6M
$424.1M
2010
reopened
$421.9M
$435.5M
2011
reopened
$454.4M
$468.3M
2012
reopened
$447.6M
$472.7M
2013
reopened
$419.5M
$440.3M
2014
settled
$417.1M
$440.8M
2015
reopened
$456.1M
$489.6M
2016
settled
$435.9M
$487.8M
2017
settled
$432.9M
$536.4M
2018
reopened
$461.8M
$572.5M
2019
settled
$467.9M
$466.0M
2020
reopened
$449.8M
$480.9M
2021
settled
$518.8M
$482.7M
2022
settled
$567.9M
$551.3M
2023
settled
$545.3M
$552.1M
2024
settled
$601.9M
$582.9M
2025
as submitted
$658.6M
$633.8M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Hospital South748$658,639,494$633,817,3123.8%
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis1,329$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 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
30,618
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
143,323
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
393.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
52.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
20.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCY HEALTH100%
  • MERCY HEALTH EAST COMMUNITIES100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: MERCY, health care sys.

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).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260077. 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 9, 2025.