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Short-term acute care hospital · Cape Girardeau, Missouri · 232 beds · CMS certification number 260110

Mercy Hospital Southeast

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 26, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2024 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$319.9M
$319,874,956 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$370.9M
$370,873,335 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$51.0M
−$50,998,379 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−15.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $97.2M in its first year on file (1996) to $156.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$156.6M (2023), −$51.0M (2024), $10.1M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2024.
  • Medicaid paid for 9.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 35.2%.
  • 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 with audit
$97.2M
$93.1M
1997
settled
$103.7M
$99.8M
1998
settled with audit
$103.2M
$102.2M
1999
settled
$106.1M
$107.4M
2000
reopened
$105.3M
$111.2M
2001
reopened
$121.3M
$121.7M
2002
reopened
$144.0M
$139.1M
2003
reopened
$156.8M
$153.2M
2004
reopened
$173.0M
$169.3M
2005
reopened
$196.9M
$194.7M
2006
reopened
$225.1M
$217.8M
2007
settled
$246.5M
$241.5M
2008
settled with audit
$277.4M
$267.1M
2009
settled
$297.3M
$287.2M
2010
reopened
$310.5M
$314.4M
2011
reopened
$321.4M
$333.3M
2012
reopened
$295.2M
$290.6M
2013
reopened
$260.7M
$306.5M
2014
reopened
$240.4M
$282.6M
2015
reopened
$290.0M
$308.3M
2016
reopened
$293.4M
$313.0M
2017
reopened
$299.9M
$323.1M
2018
reopened
$320.5M
$328.1M
2019
reopened
$316.7M
$341.7M
2020
reopened
$345.9M
$350.8M
2021
settled
$351.8M
$377.4M
2022
settled
$335.2M
$386.1M
2023
settled
$322.2M
$478.9M
2024
as submitted
$319.9M
$370.9M
2025
as submitted
$156.8M
$146.6M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2024.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Hospital Southeast232$319,874,956$370,873,335−15.9%
Christian Hospital Northeast Northwest, St. Louis256$346,657,867$390,143,036−12.5%
Mercy Hospital Joplin, Joplin242$288,122,169$269,405,2576.5%
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis, Lake St. Louis215$250,122,701$238,054,0124.8%
St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City233$139,733,615$154,369,852−10.5%
BJC Healthcare, Lees Summit216$342,670,096$362,918,477−5.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
6,380
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
29,057
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
79.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
34.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
35.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
9.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCY HEALTH100%
  • MERCY HEALTH EAST COMMUNITIES100%
  • SOUTHEASTHEALTH SYSTEM INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: SE HLTHSTODDARD, hospital; SOUTHEAST HOSPI, home office.

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 260110. 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 June 26, 2025.