Short-term acute care hospital · St. Louis, Missouri · 782 beds · CMS certification number 260020
Mercy Hospital St. Louis
Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS July 14, 2026. 29 years on file, all shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.
Enrolled with Medicare by Mercy Hospitals East Communities.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $286.4M in its first year on file (1997) to $1.6B in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: $186.9M (2023), $232.6M (2024), $160.3M (2025).
- 4 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 6.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 15.6%.
- MERCY HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
29 years of filings
1997 settled with audit margin 1.1% $286.4M $283.3M
1998 settled with audit margin 3.2% $297.0M $287.5M
1999 reopened margin 1.9% $317.4M $311.3M
2000 reopened margin −0.8% $331.7M $334.4M
2001 settled with audit margin −6.8% $332.8M $355.3M
2002 settled with audit margin −1.0% $389.1M $392.8M
2003 reopened margin 0.8% $442.6M $438.9M
2004 reopened margin 1.6% $522.8M $514.5M
2005 reopened margin −0.5% $577.3M $580.1M
2006 reopened margin 2.9% $618.0M $600.1M
2007 reopened margin 6.7% $700.1M $653.3M
2008 reopened margin 7.3% $727.1M $673.8M
2009 reopened margin 6.0% $787.4M $740.5M
2010 reopened margin 4.5% $789.2M $753.6M
2011 reopened margin 3.1% $803.5M $778.8M
2012 reopened margin 4.5% $781.9M $746.3M
2013 reopened margin 5.5% $803.0M $758.5M
2014 reopened margin 6.0% $838.1M $787.6M
2015 reopened margin 10.8% $940.6M $839.3M
2016 reopened margin 14.5% $1.0B $874.8M
2017 reopened margin 13.6% $1.1B $924.4M
2018 reopened margin 15.9% $1.1B $923.1M
2019 reopened margin 16.3% $1.1B $950.3M
2020 reopened margin 12.0% $1.1B $1.0B
2021 settled with audit margin 17.1% $1.3B $1.1B
2022 settled with audit margin 14.5% $1.3B $1.1B
2023 amended margin 13.5% $1.4B $1.2B
2024 amended margin 15.3% $1.5B $1.3B
2025 amended margin 10.2% $1.6B $1.4B
Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri with 400 and over beds, fiscal year 2025.
Hospital Beds Net patient revenue Operating expenses Margin
Mercy Hospital St. Louis 782 $1,574,806,278 $1,414,513,283 10.2%
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis 1,329 $3,820,818,547 $3,709,677,497 2.9%
Cox Medical Centers, Springfield 771 $1,762,535,748 $1,883,874,656 −6.9%
Mercy Hospital South, Saint Louis 748 $658,639,494 $633,817,312 3.8%
Mercy Hospital Springfield, Springfield 621 $1,372,051,750 $1,223,349,345 10.8%
University of Missouri Health Care, Columbia 657 $1,861,752,622 $1,842,475,798 1.0%
Patients and payers
- Discharges 49,752 S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days 229,067 S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day 629.3 days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy 80.3% days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days 15.6% S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days 6.6% S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- MERCY HEALTH100%
- MERCY HEALTH EAST COMMUNITIES100%
Related organizations on its own cost report: MHEC, home office.
Other hospitals with the same owner: Mercy Hospital Berryville (AR), Mercy Hospital Paris (AR), Mercy Hospital Ozark (AR), Mercy Hospital Waldron (AR), Mercy Hospital Booneville (AR), Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (AR), and 1 more.
Control: voluntary nonprofit, church.
Community benefit, as filed
Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by MERCY HOSPITALS EAST COMMUNITIES (employer identification number 430653493) for tax year 2022, 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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More short-term acute care hospitals in Missouri
File HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, CMS certification number 260020. Owners of 5% or more: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments, Medicare enrollment October 1, 2026.
How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read July 14, 2026.
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