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Critical access hospital · Butler, Alabama · 25 beds · CMS certification number 011304

Ochsner Choctaw General

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 2, 2026. Fourteen years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$20.3M
$20,273,730 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$20.1M
$20,085,125 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$189K
$188,605 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
0.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $5.9M in its first year on file (2012) to $20.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$520K (2023), $1.3M (2024), $189K (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 0.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 45.7%.
  • OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

Fourteen years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2012
settled
$5.9M
$6.8M
2013
settled
$10.9M
$12.8M
2014
settled
$14.1M
$13.9M
2015
settled with audit
$11.6M
$12.9M
2016
settled
$12.9M
$13.4M
2017
reopened
$14.9M
$15.8M
2018
reopened
$14.4M
$16.7M
2019
reopened
$15.9M
$17.0M
2020
reopened
$15.1M
$18.1M
2021
settled
$17.4M
$19.1M
2022
settled with audit
$17.7M
$17.4M
2023
as submitted
$18.7M
$19.2M
2024
as submitted
$20.7M
$19.4M
2025
as submitted
$20.3M
$20.1M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (critical access hospital), nearest in size, from Alabama first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ochsner Choctaw General25$20,273,730$20,085,1250.9%
Medical Center Barbour, Eufaula25$19,854,613$24,642,250−24.1%
Red Bay Hospital, Red Bay25$9,024,452$10,458,754−15.9%
St. Vincent's Blount, Oneonta25$28,425,039$42,644,525−50.0%
Washington County Hospital, Chatom15$20,764,372$20,661,1920.5%
Wiregrass Medical Center, Geneva25$10,735,479$13,428,844−25.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
64
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,928
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
5.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
21.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
45.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
0.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION100%
  • RUSH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: ORMC, admin; OCHSNER HEALTH, home office; RUSH HEALTH SYS, home office.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center (LA), Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics (LA), Ochsner LSU Health Monroe (LA), Ochsner St. Mary (LA), CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital (LA), Ochsner Medical Center (LA), Ochsner Acadia General Hospital (LA), Ochsner American Legion Hospital (LA), Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (LA), Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center (LA), CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital (LA).

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 011304. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read June 2, 2026.