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Short-term acute care hospital · Baxley, Georgia · 34 beds · CMS certification number 110071

Appling Healthcare System

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS September 29, 2026. 28 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$31.5M
$31,527,948 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$35.3M
$35,337,342 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$3.8M
−$3,809,394 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−12.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $11.5M in its first year on file (1998) to $31.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$6.5M (2023), −$6.3M (2024), −$3.8M (2025).
  • 3 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 4.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 26.1%.

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

28 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1998
reopened
$11.5M
$13.8M
1999
settled
$12.9M
$13.7M
2000
reopened
$16.1M
$17.8M
2001
settled
$18.1M
$18.8M
2002
settled
$19.6M
$20.4M
2003
settled
$18.8M
$20.5M
2004
settled
$23.9M
$24.3M
2005
reopened
$25.8M
$27.2M
2006
reopened
$28.2M
$29.7M
2007
reopened
$21.7M
$33.7M
2008
reopened
$35.9M
$34.6M
2009
reopened
$37.8M
$36.9M
2010
reopened
$29.3M
$33.4M
2011
settled
$33.0M
$36.5M
2012
reopened
$34.0M
$33.3M
2013
reopened
$32.5M
$33.5M
2014
reopened
$30.5M
$33.2M
2015
settled
$30.5M
$31.6M
2016
settled
$29.2M
$31.2M
2017
reopened
$30.3M
$31.2M
2018
settled
$28.1M
$30.5M
2019
settled
$28.6M
$31.2M
2020
settled
$30.7M
$35.2M
2021
settled
$28.9M
$38.7M
2022
settled
$28.0M
$34.5M
2023
settled
$27.4M
$33.9M
2024
settled
$28.5M
$34.7M
2025
as submitted
$31.5M
$35.3M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Georgia with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Appling Healthcare System34$31,527,948$35,337,342−12.1%
Burke Health, Waynesboro34$95,162,842$82,273,79513.5%
Commonspirit-Memorial Hospital-North Georgia, Ft Oglethorpe35$22,877,832$25,580,599−11.8%
Jefferson Hospital, Louisville37$13,843,509$20,891,901−50.9%
NGMC Barrow, Winder31$71,399,963$55,810,91621.8%
Union General Hospital, Blairsville39$119,390,001$119,826,359−0.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
218
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
775
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
2.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
6.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
26.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, county.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 110071. 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 September 29, 2026.