US Health Care Costs

Fainting in Missouri

MS-DRG 312: Syncope and collapse

$30,481typical hospital bill
$6,869typical amount paid
$5,607–$11,834range paid across 34 hospitals

Missouri hospitals billed Medicare a typical $30,481 for this stay in 2024, about 4.4 times what was actually paid. Medicare's payment depends mostly on the hospital's location and teaching role; the bill depends on the hospital's own price list, so bills vary far more than payments.

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

HospitalCityMedicare staysBilledPaid
Saint Luke's East HospitalLees Summit32$68,621$5,607
Boone Hospital CenterColumbia23$20,693$5,634
Barnes-Jewish St Peters HospitalSaint Peters18$26,934$5,692
Missouri Baptist Medical CenterSaint Louis46$30,229$5,915
Poplar Bluff Regional Medical CenterPoplar Bluff16$58,233$6,169
St Lukes HospitalChesterfield67$24,997$6,180
Lee's Summit Medical CenterLees Summit25$67,956$6,212
Ssm St Joseph Hospital WestLake Saint Louis26$27,652$6,234
Liberty HospitalLiberty32$29,003$6,252
Mercy Hospital SouthSaint Louis66$24,764$6,445
Ssm St Clare Health CenterFenton12$23,492$6,573
Progress West HospitalOfallon12$32,797$6,660
Mercy Hospital JoplinJoplin15$31,988$6,761
Centerpoint Medical CenterIndependence43$86,951$6,771
Mercy Hospital JeffersonCrystal City13$23,222$6,786
Nkc HealthNorth Kansas City44$37,418$6,802
Freeman Health System - Freeman WestJoplin37$45,551$6,821
Mercy Hospital SoutheastCape Girardeau19$25,619$6,918
Ssm Health St. Mary's Hospital - Jefferson CityJefferson City13$28,176$6,934
Hannibal Regional HospitalHannibal12$29,876$6,993
Mercy Hospital SpringfieldSpringfield35$29,852$7,079
Ssm Health Depaul Hospital St LouisBridgeton12$30,220$7,156
Mercy Hospital St LouisSaint Louis59$30,732$7,201
Missouri Delta Medical CenterSikeston11$29,236$7,543
Cox Medical CentersSpringfield28$34,575$7,838
Phelps County Regional Medical CenterRolla14$34,170$7,859
Christian Hospital NortheastSaint Louis22$32,262$8,190
Mosaic Life Care at St JosephSaint Joseph29$29,626$8,528
University of Missouri Health CareColumbia33$31,518$8,887
Ssm Health St Mary's Hospital - St LouisSaint Louis16$27,490$9,845
Barnes Jewish HospitalSaint Louis31$40,452$10,449
St Lukes Hospital of Kansas CityKansas City22$71,531$10,884
Research Medical CenterKansas City16$99,342$10,959
Ssm Health Saint Louis University HospitalSaint Louis13$41,088$11,834

Medicare: CMS, 2024 (hospitals with 11 or more Medicare stays). Cash and insurer prices: hospitals' own price files, where read; insurer figures are commercial plans only, median and 10th–90th percentile across plans.