Critical access hospital · Big Sandy, Montana · 8 beds · CMS certification number 271311
Big Sandy Medical Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 4, 2025. 26 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 $1.8M in its first year on file (2000) to $5.5M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$1.9M (2023), −$2.4M (2024), −$2.6M (2025).
- All 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 50.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 6.4%.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
26 years of filings
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Beside its peers
Critical access hospitals in Montana with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sandy Medical Center | 8 | $5,538,165 | $8,155,261 | −47.3% |
| Beartooth Billings Clinic, Red Lodge | 10 | $21,240,951 | $22,069,912 | −3.9% |
| Big Sky Medical Center, Big Sky | 8 | $21,198,540 | $24,063,269 | −13.5% |
| Deer Lodge Medical Center, Deer Lodge | 16 | $25,708,689 | $26,005,690 | −1.2% |
| Madison Valley Medical Center, Ennis | 10 | $14,448,921 | $18,469,811 | −27.8% |
| Phillips County Hospital Assn, Malta | 6 | $8,421,819 | $9,648,492 | −14.6% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 28S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 7,117S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 19.6days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 243.7%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 6.4%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 50.6%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.
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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 271311. 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 4, 2025.