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Critical access hospital · Big Bear, California · 9 beds · CMS certification number 051335

Bear Valley Community Health Care District

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 19, 2025. Eleven years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$36.3M
$36,274,713 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$42.8M
$42,818,810 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$6.5M
−$6,544,097 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−18.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $20.9M in its first year on file (2015) to $36.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$3.0M (2023), −$6.9M (2024), −$6.5M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.

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

Eleven years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2015
settled
$20.9M
$22.5M
2016
settled
$20.8M
$20.9M
2017
settled
$23.8M
$22.7M
2018
settled
$25.9M
$24.5M
2019
settled
$28.8M
$25.2M
2020
settled
$26.8M
$26.1M
2021
settled with audit
$29.8M
$28.7M
2022
as submitted
$30.1M
$33.2M
2023
as submitted
$30.8M
$33.8M
2024
as submitted
$33.5M
$40.4M
2025
as submitted
$36.3M
$42.8M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in California with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Bear Valley Community Health Care District9$36,274,713$42,818,810−18.0%
Eastern Plumas Health Care, Portola9$44,083,538$42,648,2723.3%
Jerold Phelps Community Hospital, Garberville9$19,004,712$33,684,922−77.3%
George L. Mee Memorial Hospital, King City13$77,584,924$73,252,9095.6%
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital, Solvang11$35,481,052$30,817,17413.1%
Seneca Hospital, Chester10$26,886,069$23,213,21113.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
374
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,475
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
4.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
44.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
26.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, hospital district.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 051335. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 19, 2025.