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Critical access hospital · Ellsworth, Kansas · 19 beds · CMS certification number 171327

Ellsworth County Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 8, 2025. 25 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$20.3M
$20,267,795 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$24.7M
$24,651,103 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$4.4M
−$4,383,308 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−21.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $10.8M in its first year on file (2001) to $20.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$5.4M (2023), −$5.3M (2024), −$4.4M (2025).
  • 4 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.

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

25 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2001
settled
$10.8M
$4.7M
2002
settled
$7.2M
$7.5M
2003
settled
$9.3M
$8.1M
2004
reopened
$7.8M
$8.8M
2005
reopened
$9.4M
$10.0M
2006
settled
$10.0M
$10.4M
2007
reopened
$11.6M
$11.6M
2008
settled with audit
$11.9M
$12.6M
2009
settled
$12.5M
$13.7M
2010
settled
$12.6M
$13.5M
2011
settled
$12.9M
$13.3M
2012
settled
$12.2M
$13.2M
2013
settled
$12.6M
$14.4M
2014
reopened
$13.0M
$15.7M
2015
settled
$14.1M
$15.6M
2016
settled
$12.9M
$16.1M
2017
settled
$14.2M
$17.0M
2018
settled
$13.5M
$17.1M
2019
settled
$15.0M
$18.2M
2020
settled
$15.7M
$19.7M
2021
settled
$15.8M
$21.0M
2022
settled
$16.8M
$21.9M
2023
settled
$17.4M
$22.8M
2024
settled
$17.8M
$23.0M
2025
as submitted
$20.3M
$24.7M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ellsworth County Medical Center19$20,267,795$24,651,103−21.6%
Gove County Medical Center, Quinter21$16,364,514$22,013,979−34.5%
Kearny County Hospital, Lakin21$26,499,227$27,763,305−4.8%
Meade District Hospital, Meade20$12,050,235$13,836,012−14.8%
Nemaha Valley Community Hospital, Seneca18$25,496,695$28,239,130−10.8%
Wamego Health Center, Wamego18$20,820,039$18,405,06511.6%

Patients and payers

Discharges
195
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,059
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
2.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
15.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
62.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 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 171327. 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 8, 2025.