Short-term acute care hospital · Bakersfield, California · 222 beds · CMS certification number 050315
Kern County Hospital Authority
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 15, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $57.9M in its first year on file (1997) to $307.2M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$234.9M (2023), −$262.0M (2024), −$286.9M (2025).
- 4 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 19.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 7.3%.
- KERN COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
29 years of filings
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Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in California with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kern County Hospital Authority | 222 | $307,220,164 | $594,109,235 | −93.4% |
| Ahmc Anaheim Regional Medical, Anaheim | 223 | $148,983,668 | $181,900,587 | −22.1% |
| Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, Monterey | 227 | $939,515,364 | $915,378,324 | 2.6% |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospital-Riverside, Riverside | 225 | $557,334,114 | $665,185,202 | −19.4% |
| Memorialcare Orange Coast Medical Center, Fountain Valley | 221 | $471,380,769 | $514,192,345 | −9.1% |
| UCSF Health Community Hospitals, San Francisco | 222 | $176,636,647 | $250,670,126 | −41.9% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 11,004S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 63,912S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 175.6days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 78.9%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 7.3%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 19.1%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
- KERN COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY100%
Type of control on its cost report: governmental, county.
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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 050315. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read June 15, 2026.