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Short-term acute care hospital · Kansas City, Missouri · 452 beds · CMS certification number 260138

St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 4, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.1B
$1,113,304,260 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.2B
$1,181,142,011 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$67.8M
−$67,837,751 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−6.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $231.8M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.1B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$80.7M (2023), −$124.3M (2024), −$67.8M (2025).
  • 2 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 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 8.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 21.6%.
  • BJC HEALTH SYSTEM 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
$231.8M
$221.0M
1997
settled with audit
$249.6M
$243.6M
1998
settled with audit
$249.4M
$247.0M
1999
reopened
$249.4M
$270.5M
2000
reopened
$272.7M
$271.7M
2001
reopened
$297.3M
$293.1M
2002
reopened
$330.8M
$306.6M
2003
reopened
$313.8M
$320.1M
2004
reopened
$330.6M
$334.6M
2005
reopened
$351.9M
$361.5M
2006
reopened
$374.0M
$368.8M
2007
reopened
$385.6M
$398.9M
2008
reopened
$409.4M
$445.3M
2009
reopened
$407.3M
$442.2M
2010
reopened
$437.9M
$462.6M
2011
reopened
$452.5M
$484.1M
2012
reopened
$478.7M
$524.6M
2013
reopened
$509.0M
$555.4M
2014
reopened
$527.6M
$575.3M
2015
reopened
$561.6M
$608.1M
2016
reopened
$641.6M
$682.1M
2017
reopened
$699.5M
$743.3M
2018
reopened
$754.9M
$795.9M
2019
reopened
$811.4M
$852.7M
2020
reopened
$790.9M
$861.5M
2021
settled with audit
$898.9M
$948.8M
2022
settled with audit
$883.5M
$992.8M
2023
amended
$976.6M
$1.1B
2024
amended
$995.0M
$1.1B
2025
as submitted
$1.1B
$1.2B

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
St. Lukes Hospital of Kansas City452$1,113,304,260$1,181,142,011−6.1%
Mercy Hospital Springfield, Springfield621$1,372,051,750$1,223,349,34510.8%
Missouri Baptist Medical Center, St. Louis412$914,026,206$855,040,0006.5%
SSM Health Depaul Hospital, Bridgeton463$592,795,899$662,821,104−11.8%
SSM Health St. Marys Hospital - STL, St. Louis488$872,888,182$992,387,039−13.7%
Univ of Missouri Health Care, Columbia657$1,861,752,622$1,842,475,7981.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
20,183
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
128,387
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
352.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
77.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
21.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
8.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • BJC HEALTH SYSTEM100%
  • SAINT LUKES HEALTH SYSTEM INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: BJC, health system; SLELS, hospital; SLS, hospital.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Alton Memorial Hospital (IL), Memorial Hospital (IL), The Rehabilitation Institute of Sout (IL), St. Lukes South (KS), Anderson County Hospital (KS), Allen County Regional Hospital (KS), Barnes-Jewish Hospital (MO), Saint Lukes North Hospital (MO), Missouri Baptist Medical Center (MO).

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).

Community benefit, as filed

Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City (employer identification number 440545297) for tax year 2023, once for the 2 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 260138. 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 June 4, 2026.