Surgery Center Benchmarks

St. Joseph, MO-KS

4 Medicare-certified surgical centers. 4 report quality measures, 4 have patient-survey scores.

4 centers
Center City Specialties Ownership ORs Hospital visits after surgery
St. Joseph Center for Outpatient Surgery Saint Joseph EndoscopyFoot surgeryOrthopedic surgery +2 Proprietary 6 As expected Colonoscopy
Mercury Surgery Center, LLC Saint Joseph Other surgery Proprietary 1 Worse Urology
Surgery Center of St. Joseph, LLC St. Joseph Ophthalmology Proprietary 2 no case volume reported
Murphy Watson Burr Surgery Center St. Joseph Other surgery Proprietary 2 As expected General surgery

One measure shown per center — the one with reportable case volume. Every center reports on a different mix, which is why the full grid below is worth reading.

Center Colonoscopy
nat 9.9
Orthopedic
nat 2.4
Urology
nat 5.4
General surgery
nat 1
Transfer
rate
Rating Recommend Surveys
St. Joseph Center for Outpatient Surgery 10.9 As expected 2.2 As expected — — 0.176 95 94 214
Mercury Surgery Center, LLC — — 7 Worse — 0.244 95 93 153
Surgery Center of St. Joseph, LLC — — — — 0 95 86 25
Murphy Watson Burr Surgery Center — — — 1 As expected — 94 95 133

Rates are per-100 risk-standardized 7-day hospital visits; "nat" is the national rate for that measure. Rating and Recommend are OAS CAHPS linear mean scores (0–100). A dash means CMS did not report a value — usually too few cases, which is not a bad score.

Sources: CMS Provider of Services file (iQIES, 2026 Q2) for the facility list, specialties and room counts; CMS ASCQR facility-level quality measures; CMS OAS CAHPS patient survey. Metro grouping is by CBSA code 41140; the area name is the U.S. Census Bureau's own title for it, not one we invented.