2316 E Meyer Blvd, Kansas City, MO, 64132 · (816) 276-4000
Beds
294
FY 2025
Star rating
2 of 5
Patient survey: 2 of 5
Net patient revenue
$577.0M
FY 2025
Net income
$7.6M
Patient care margin -0.2%
Discharges
14,484
Occupancy 68.6%
Clinicians
465
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $577.0M | $578.3M | -0.2% | $7.6M | 14,484 | $29.6M | 19.3% | 7.6% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate after heart bypass surgery | 3% | US median 2.3% |
| Death rate for COPD patients | 9% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart attack patients | 11.8% | US median 11.8% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 9.8% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.8% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 18.7% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $586.0M | $609.6M | -4.0% | -$13.1M | 14,614 | $30.1M | 17.3% | 10.0% |
| 2023 | $586.9M | $617.1M | -5.1% | -$18.0M | 14,340 | $26.0M | 16.3% | 9.9% |
| 2022 | $487.0M | $512.1M | -5.2% | -$12.4M | 14,238 | $32.2M | 19.7% | 16.7% |
| 2021 | $488.5M | $485.8M | 0.6% | $17.6M | 14,923 | $38.6M | 22.7% | 16.4% |
| 2020 | $449.9M | $450.7M | -0.2% | $15.5M | 15,450 | $47.3M | 25.4% | 14.8% |
| 14.7% |
| US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate after heart bypass surgery | 10.9% | US median 10.9% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.4% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 13.3% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 21% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 16.9% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.96 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.15 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.74 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.65 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.51 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.52 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 71% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 70% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 2 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 49% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 58% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 64% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 58% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 0% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 90 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 17% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 60% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 40% | US median 79% |
| 56 |
| $527,708.73 |
| $38,663.55 |
| $40,556.82 |
| DRG 274 PERCUTANEOUS AND OTHER INTRACARDIAC PROCEDURES WITHOUT MCC | 50 | $343,147.94 | $23,550.36 | $24,748.54 |
| DRG 682 RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC | 44 | $126,890.57 | $12,579.34 | $11,457.18 |
| DRG 064 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH MCC | 43 | $228,357.40 | $15,947.60 | $15,695.20 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 40 | $132,194.35 | $13,169.23 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 552 MEDICAL BACK PROBLEMS WITHOUT MCC | 37 | $106,056.38 | $7,481.81 | $7,114.44 |
| DRG 189 PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE | 37 | $134,047.73 | $9,410.95 | $9,973.97 |
| DRG 652 KIDNEY TRANSPLANT | 34 | $821,389.68 | $21,139.82 | $26,483.52 |
| DRG 065 INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE OR CEREBRAL INFARCTION WITH CC OR TPA IN 24 HOURS | 31 | $210,199.45 | $13,511.74 | $7,474.08 |
| DRG 266 ENDOVASCULAR CARDIAC VALVE REPLACEMENT AND SUPPLEMENT PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 29 | $729,935.97 | $49,546.97 | $52,994.82 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 28 | $88,985.00 | $6,977.11 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 27 | $114,218.89 | $9,751.11 | $10,642.23 |
| DRG 252 OTHER VASCULAR PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 26 | $287,104.69 | $26,002.19 | $29,696.95 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 113 | 106 | $1,867.58 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5213 Level 3 Electrophysiologic Procedures | 93 | 88 | $19,057.71 | $21,117.37 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | 77 | 71 | $1,331.31 | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 70 | 67 | $1,108.64 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5191 Level 1 Endovascular Procedures | 67 | 66 | $2,039.79 | $2,207.96 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 52 | 52 | $2,217.86 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 41 | 39 | $1,972.40 | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5193 Level 3 Endovascular Procedures | 41 | 34 | $7,963.23 | $8,873.86 |
| APC 5184 Level 4 Vascular Procedures | 40 | 28 | $2,676.58 | $3,945.82 |
| APC 5361 Level 1 Laparoscopy and Related Services | 38 | 36 | $4,009.84 | $4,357.80 |
| APC 5194 Level 4 Endovascular Procedures | 31 | 28 | $13,651.92 | $14,606.35 |
| APC 5223 Level 3 Pacemaker and Similar Procedures | 30 | 30 | $7,680.54 | $8,569.01 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Research Medical Center is a for-profit short-term acute care hospital in Kansas City, MO with 294 beds, part of HCA Healthcare and a 2-star overall rating.
Research Medical Center in Kansas City, MO has 294 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 545 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 14,484 inpatients that year, with 68.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Research Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $577.0M and operating expenses of $578.3M, a margin on patient care of -0.2%. After other income and expenses its net income was $7.6M (1.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Research Medical Center is part of HCA Healthcare (listed company, ticker HCA), a health system with 163 hospitals based in Nashville, TN. It is a for-profit hospital.
Research Medical Center has an overall rating of 2 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 2 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Research Medical Center provides emergency services.
465 Medicare clinicians list Research Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (Crna), Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Research Medical Center had 1,442 Medicare inpatient stays in 61 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 145 stays; Medicare paid $14,881.40 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $107K in payments to Research Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($37K general and $70K for research) from 8 companies.