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Critical access hospital · Wadena, Minnesota · 18 beds · CMS certification number 241354

Astera Health

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 28, 2026. 22 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$94.5M
$94,537,121 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$102.8M
$102,838,666 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$8.3M
−$8,301,545 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−8.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $10.9M in its first year on file (2004) to $94.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$11.0M (2023), −$7.7M (2024), −$8.3M (2025).
  • 2 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 1.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 27.3%.

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

22 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2004
settled with audit
$10.9M
$11.0M
2005
settled with audit
$27.6M
$28.7M
2006
reopened
$32.0M
$32.2M
2007
reopened
$34.7M
$34.5M
2008
reopened
$40.0M
$42.6M
2009
settled with audit
$39.7M
$43.7M
2010
settled with audit
$42.4M
$43.9M
2011
settled
not filed
$43.1M
2012
reopened
$39.5M
$44.9M
2013
reopened
$42.9M
$47.3M
2014
reopened
$43.6M
$53.6M
2015
settled with audit
$46.4M
$56.9M
2016
settled
$47.5M
$59.0M
2017
settled
$51.9M
$61.0M
2018
settled
$53.5M
$64.8M
2019
reopened
$57.1M
$68.4M
2020
reopened
$56.9M
$69.3M
2021
settled
$72.5M
$77.1M
2022
settled
$76.0M
$77.4M
2023
amended
$79.6M
$90.6M
2024
as submitted
$90.9M
$98.5M
2025
as submitted
$94.5M
$102.8M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Astera Health18$94,537,121$102,838,666−8.8%
Glacial Ridge Hospital, Glenwood19$58,856,825$62,567,040−6.3%
Bigfork Valley Hospital, Bigfork20$24,953,935$31,303,544−25.4%
Sanford Tracy Medical Center, Tracy18$14,188,371$13,537,5214.6%
Ridgeview Sibley Medical Center, Arlington20$23,006,989$19,602,95214.8%
Windom Area Health, Windom18$32,755,631$32,095,0722.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
759
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,815
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
7.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
42.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
27.3%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: CMDI (3%), joint venture; CANCER CENTER (51%), joint venture.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 241354. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read May 28, 2026.