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Short-term acute care hospital · Lake St. Louis, Missouri · 215 beds · CMS certification number 260200

SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 15, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$274.1M
$274,102,946 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$257.9M
$257,859,037 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$16.2M
$16,243,909 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
5.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $22.1M in its first year on file (1996) to $274.1M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $13.2M (2023), $12.1M (2024), $16.2M (2025).
  • 2 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 5.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 21.1%.
  • SSM HEALTH CARE ST LOUIS 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
$22.1M
$21.3M
1997
reopened
$22.6M
$22.4M
1998
settled
$25.0M
$23.8M
1999
settled
$29.2M
$26.7M
2000
reopened
$33.2M
$32.4M
2001
reopened
$44.1M
$39.9M
2002
reopened
$53.8M
$48.7M
2003
reopened
$59.0M
$56.7M
2004
reopened
$59.5M
$57.9M
2005
reopened
$73.1M
$69.2M
2006
reopened
$94.4M
$92.1M
2007
reopened
$101.0M
$99.1M
2008
reopened
$102.1M
$103.2M
2009
reopened
$108.5M
$107.3M
2010
reopened
$121.0M
$114.9M
2011
reopened
$137.0M
$129.2M
2012
reopened
$132.0M
$124.5M
2013
reopened
$137.5M
$127.3M
2014
reopened
$151.0M
$132.6M
2015
reopened
$161.8M
$143.0M
2016
settled
$163.2M
$150.1M
2017
settled
$174.8M
$166.6M
2018
reopened
$184.2M
$167.3M
2019
settled
$189.0M
$177.4M
2020
reopened
$174.2M
$180.7M
2021
settled
$207.3M
$198.0M
2022
settled
$208.4M
$205.2M
2023
settled
$249.9M
$236.7M
2024
settled
$250.1M
$238.1M
2025
as submitted
$274.1M
$257.9M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - Lake Saint Louis215$274,102,946$257,859,0375.9%
Christian Hospital Northeast Northwest, St. Louis252$345,319,430$404,238,681−17.1%
Mercy Hospital Joplin, Joplin221$314,588,481$289,901,5287.8%
Phelps Health, Rolla202$357,187,600$240,015,68532.8%
BJC Healthcare, Lees Summit216$348,256,331$360,988,700−3.7%
University Health Truman Medical Center, Kansas City262$676,903,361$698,053,529−3.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
12,300
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
45,813
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
125.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
58.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
21.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • SSM HEALTH CARE ST LOUIS100%
  • SSM HEALTH CARE CORPORATION85%
  • ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY15%

Related organizations on its own cost report: SSM HEALTH CARE (100%), home office; SSM HEALTH CARE (100%), stl network; SSM HEALTH CARE (100%), ssm hospitals.

Other hospitals with the same owner: SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - Centralia (IL), SSM Health Good Samaritan Hospital - Mt. Vernon (IL), SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital - St. Charles (MO), SSM Health St. Marys Hospital Jefferson City (MO), SSM Health St. Clare Hospital - Fenton (MO), SSM Health St. Mary's Hospital - St. Louis (MO), SSM Health Depaul Hospital - St. Louis (MO), SSM Health Saint Louis University Hospital (MO), SSM Health Rehabilitation Hospital (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).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 260200. 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 15, 2026.