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Short-term acute care hospital · North Kansas City, Missouri · 385 beds · CMS certification number 260096

NKC Health

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS September 30, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$695.7M
$695,685,993 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$654.7M
$654,748,387 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$40.9M
$40,937,606 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
5.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $132.9M in its first year on file (1997) to $695.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $46.5M (2023), $26.4M (2024), $40.9M (2025).
  • None of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 7.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 25.6%.

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
$132.9M
$123.8M
1998
settled
$142.3M
$133.7M
1999
reopened
$145.2M
$137.5M
2000
reopened
$146.2M
$143.1M
2001
reopened
$174.3M
$169.7M
2002
settled
$202.1M
$200.4M
2003
settled
$235.8M
$238.4M
2004
reopened
$253.8M
$252.6M
2005
settled
$273.7M
$267.1M
2006
settled
$303.9M
$290.4M
2007
reopened
$367.4M
$316.7M
2008
settled
not filed
not filed
2009
settled
$397.4M
$351.0M
2010
reopened
$396.5M
$350.1M
2011
reopened
$408.2M
$362.7M
2012
reopened
$403.7M
$372.0M
2013
reopened
$415.9M
$373.0M
2014
reopened
$426.6M
$374.2M
2015
reopened
$462.9M
$408.3M
2016
reopened
$484.6M
$434.9M
2017
reopened
$489.1M
$465.2M
2018
reopened
$488.3M
$468.9M
2019
reopened
$505.6M
$474.6M
2020
settled
$481.4M
$496.2M
2021
settled with audit
$562.9M
$544.2M
2022
reopened
$608.6M
$562.5M
2023
settled
$601.5M
$555.0M
2024
settled
$651.2M
$624.7M
2025
as submitted
$695.7M
$654.7M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
NKC Health385$695,685,993$654,748,3875.9%
Freeman Health System, Joplin347$613,768,158$631,432,174−2.9%
Mosaic Life Care at St. Joseph Medical Center, St. Joseph330$782,205,647$802,581,558−2.6%
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles, St. Charles399$358,942,618$421,941,683−17.5%
SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital, St. Louis391$963,512,370$1,021,145,102−6.0%
St. Lukes Hospital, Chesterfield390$573,467,814$616,421,469−7.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
19,711
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
87,360
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
240.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
62.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
25.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
7.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, city-county.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260096. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read September 30, 2026.