US Health Care Costs

Western Missouri Medical Center

403 Burkarth Road, Warrensburg, MO 64093 · (660) 747-2500

General hospitalGovernment - LocalEmergency roomCMS rating ★★★★★

The money

$31what care cost the hospital for every $100 it billed
−$5.0Mnet income, all sources
−14.9%margin on patient care alone
$60,308cost of charity care (0.1% of costs)
$6.7Munpaid bills written off (bad debt)
45beds

From the hospital's Medicare cost report for the year ending December 2024.

Hospital stays

Medicare figures are 2024 averages for this hospital; the bars show how much of the bill was actually paid.

Billed (list price)Actually paid (Medicare + patient)

StayMedicare staysBilledPaid
Sepsis, with major complications 87142$40,438$21,109
Heart failure, with major complications 29138$27,363$13,863
Pneumonia, with major complications 19336$24,709$13,955
Lung infection, with major complications 17724$32,759$17,891
Hip or knee replacement 47018$45,575$20,014
Sepsis 87216$23,585$10,991
COPD, with major complications 19011$22,614$11,901
Skin infection (cellulitis) 60311$19,213$9,487
Kidney failure, with complications 68311$21,324$9,732
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