Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXXIII. Evidence and Legal Advertisements § 490.715. Collateral source rule and payments rendered prior to trial, admissibility of evidence--effect on special damages--evidence of actual cost of medical care or treatment permitted

1. No evidence of collateral sources, or payments rendered under subsection 2 of this section, shall be admissible other than such evidence provided for in this section.

2. If prior to trial a defendant or his or her insurer or authorized representative, or any combination of them, pays all or any part of a plaintiff's special damages, then any portion of a plaintiff's claims for special damages that are satisfied by a payment from a defendant or the defendant's insurer or authorized representative, or any combination of them, are not recoverable from that defendant.

3. If such payments described in subsection 2 of this section are included in a plaintiff's claim for special damages at trial, the defendant who made the payment, or on whose behalf the payment was made, shall be entitled to deduct and receive a credit for such payments from any judgment as provided for in section 490.710.

4. This section does not require the exclusion of evidence admissible for another proper purpose.