US Health Care Costs

Mercy Hospital Columbus

220 N Pennsylvania Avenue, Columbus, KS 66725 · (620) 429-2545

Rural (critical access) hospitalVoluntary non-profit - ChurchEmergency roomCMS rating Not rated

The money

$85what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
$1.9Mnet income, all sources
22.5%margin on patient care alone
$178,044cost of charity care (2.2% of costs)
$613,619unpaid bills written off (bad debt)
25beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending June 2025. Non-profit hospitals must have a financial assistance (charity care) policy; ask for it if a bill is hard to pay.

Cash and insurer prices for this hospital haven't been added yet. The hospital publishes them on its own price page.

This hospital has no Medicare stay data for 2024. Medicare data covers mostly patients 65 and older, so psychiatric, children's and very small hospitals often don't appear.