Boone Hospital Center

1600 E Broadway, Columbia, MO 65201 · (573) 815-8000

Charges moderately above what care is paid for

For every $1 of care Medicare actually paid for here, Boone Hospital Center billed $4.24 in list charges. That gap does not change a Medicare patient's bill — but it is where an uninsured or out-of-network bill starts.

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Charge-to-payment: 4.2x; volume-weighted across all its priced work
Procedures priced: 141; inpatient and outpatient combined
Rank in MO: #20; lower markup ranks higher
CMS quality stars: 4/5; shown for context, not in the grade

How this grade was reached

Each component is scored against every other U.S. hospital in the same federal files, so the grade is a position in the country, not a pass mark we invented.

Inpatient charge markup 18.0/35

Better than 51% of U.S. hospitals.

Outpatient charge markup 17.9/25

Better than 72% of U.S. hospitals.

Price level vs national median 23.4/30

Better than 78% of U.S. hospitals.

Price consistency 8.7/10

Better than 87% of U.S. hospitals.

What this hospital treats most

The ten procedures it billed Medicare for most often, with its charge beside the national middle.

Procedure	Patients	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Sepsis (severe) MS-DRG 871 · Inpatient stay	589	$45,089	$12,271	-31%
Level 2 Upper GI Procedures APC 5302 · Hospital outpatient visit	481	$8,638	$1,608	-27%
Level 1 Endovascular Procedures APC 5191 · Hospital outpatient visit	369	$17,873	$2,754	-29%
Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5115 · Hospital outpatient visit	333	$42,687	$11,100	-32%
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	288	$10,049	$1,365	about average
Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures APC 5213 · Hospital outpatient visit	229	$117,335	$20,098	-12%
Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures APC 5114 · Hospital outpatient visit	200	$24,503	$6,015	-39%
Level 1 Nerve Procedures APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit	182	$13,786	$1,636	+21%
Heart Failure (severe) MS-DRG 291 · Inpatient stay	177	$30,707	$8,061	-29%
Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services APC 5361 · Hospital outpatient visit	176	$19,088	$4,888	-46%

Where its charges run furthest above the national middle

Only procedures it performed at least eleven times, so a single unusual case cannot produce the headline.

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Level 1 Nerve Procedures APC 5431 · Hospital outpatient visit	$13,786	$1,636	+21%
Level 1 Icd and Similar Procedures APC 5231 · Hospital outpatient visit	$102,123	$20,008	+8%
Level 4 Neurostimulator and Related Procedures APC 5464 · Hospital outpatient visit	$80,577	$18,571	about average
Level 4 Airway Endoscopy APC 5154 · Hospital outpatient visit	$22,655	$3,133	about average
Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5072 · Hospital outpatient visit	$10,049	$1,365	about average
Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage APC 5073 · Hospital outpatient visit	$17,565	$2,418	about average
Other Major Cardiovascular Procedures with Complications MS-DRG 271 · Inpatient stay	$145,394	$21,930	-3%
Level 3 Upper GI Procedures APC 5303 · Hospital outpatient visit	$19,950	$3,166	-9%

Where it charges least relative to everyone else

Procedure	Charged	Actually paid	vs national
Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 329 · Inpatient stay	$73,236	$25,383	-59%
Disorders of Pancreas Except Malignancy with Major Complications MS-DRG 438 · Inpatient stay	$28,677	$10,097	-59%
Craniotomy and Endovascular Intracranial Procedures with Major Complications MS-DRG 025 · Inpatient stay	$82,455	$23,983	-57%
Major Small and Large Bowel Procedures with Complications MS-DRG 330 · Inpatient stay	$44,500	$14,695	-56%
Other Vascular Procedures with Complications MS-DRG 253 · Inpatient stay	$49,953	$15,930	-56%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Major Complications MS-DRG 388 · Inpatient stay	$26,321	$8,643	-54%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction with Complications MS-DRG 389 · Inpatient stay	$15,276	$5,004	-51%
Gastrointestinal Obstruction without Complications/mcc MS-DRG 390 · Inpatient stay	$11,920	$3,742	-50%

What this page cannot tell you

It is not your bill. These are averages across Medicare patients. What you pay depends on your insurance, your plan's negotiated rate and your own case.
It is not a quality rating. A hospital with a high markup may be excellent, and one with a low markup may not be. We checked: across every U.S. hospital, markup and the CMS quality star rating barely move together.
A charge is not a cost. Hospitals do not collect their list charges from insured patients. The number matters because it is the opening figure on an uninsured or out-of-network bill.
Ask for the real number. Every U.S. hospital must publish a machine-readable price file and give you a written good-faith estimate on request.

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The record

CMS provider number: 260068
Type: Acute Care Hospitals
Ownership: Voluntary non-profit - Other
Emergency department: Yes
Setting: Metropolitan area core: primary flow within an urbanized area of 50,000 and greater

Source: CMS Medicare Inpatient and Outpatient utilisation files and Hospital General Information. See the files.