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Cash prices St. Louis, MO Outpatient

Cheapest hospitals in St. Louis, MO without insurance

Of 14 hospitals in the St. Louis, MO area we can compare, Mercy Hospital Lincoln (Elsberry) has the lowest cash prices: its typical outpatient price is 17% below the Missouri median across 144 procedures. The ranking compares each hospital's own cash price with the median of all hospitals in its state, procedure by procedure.

Collected Sep 25, 2026 Hospitals with at least 30 comparable procedures

Hospital Typical price vs stateBelow median Above median
1. Mercy Hospital Lincoln Elsberry 17% below 93 of 144 38 of 144
2. Mercy Hospitals East Communities Washington 17% below 93 of 144 38 of 144
3. Gateway Regional Medical Center Granite City 13% below 151 of 267 116 of 267
4. Mercy Hospital South Saint Louis 6% below 208 of 366 139 of 366
5. Mercy Hospital St Louis Saint Louis at median 178 of 397 194 of 397
6. Ranken Jordan Home for Convalescent Crippled Children Hospital Maryland Heights 1% above 64 of 133 69 of 133
7. Mercy Hospital Washington Washington 2% above 150 of 367 190 of 367
8. Mercy Hospital Lincoln Troy 7% above 114 of 307 185 of 307
9. Mercy Hospital Jefferson Festus 11% above 135 of 339 198 of 339
10. Shriners Childrens - St Louis Saint Louis 43% above 22 of 205 176 of 205
11. Hshs Holy Family Hospital Greenville 52% above 32 of 239 205 of 239
12. St Josephs Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis Highland 59% above 41 of 246 205 of 246
13. St Josephs Hospital Hospital Sisters Third Order of St Francis Breese 59% above 31 of 240 208 of 240
14. St Elizabeths Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis O'Fallon 65% above 31 of 261 228 of 261

How the ranking works

  • For every procedure, we take the hospital's lowest outpatient cash price and compare it with the median of all hospitals in the same state that publish a cash price for the same code (only codes with at least three hospitals in the state).
  • "Typical price" is the middle of those comparisons: half of the hospital's procedures are cheaper than that, half are dearer. One expensive surgery does not outweigh a hundred cheap lab tests, and the other way round.
  • Hospitals with fewer than 30 comparable procedures are left out: with a handful of codes the place would be decided by chance.
  • Prices far below every other hospital are worth a phone call: some price files list only part of a service (for example the facility fee without the doctor's fee), or a discount that depends on income.
  • A low rank does not mean every price is low. Open the hospital to see the procedure you need, then ask its billing office for a Good Faith Estimate in writing.