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Critical access hospital · Deer Lodge, Montana · 16 beds · CMS certification number 271314

Deer Lodge Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, settled, stamped by CMS August 26, 2026. 26 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$25.7M
$25,708,689 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$26.0M
$26,005,690 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$297K
−$297,001 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−1.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $3.0M in its first year on file (2000) to $25.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$1.9M (2023), −$2.5M (2024), −$297K (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.
  • Medicaid paid for 5.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 82.0%.

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

26 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2000
settled with audit
$3.0M
$3.4M
2001
settled
$4.0M
$4.2M
2002
reopened
$4.2M
$4.4M
2003
reopened
$4.6M
$4.8M
2004
reopened
$4.6M
$4.8M
2005
settled with audit
$5.3M
$5.2M
2006
settled
$6.0M
$5.3M
2007
settled
$5.7M
$5.8M
2008
settled
$6.4M
$6.1M
2009
settled
$6.0M
$6.1M
2010
settled
$6.2M
$6.2M
2011
as submitted
$5.6M
$6.0M
2012
settled with audit
$6.3M
$6.8M
2013
reopened
$7.3M
$7.8M
2014
reopened
$7.4M
$8.4M
2015
settled
$9.4M
$9.2M
2016
settled
$11.7M
$10.9M
2017
settled
$12.6M
$12.9M
2018
settled
$13.9M
$13.7M
2019
settled
$14.5M
$14.6M
2020
settled
$17.6M
$17.2M
2021
settled
$20.0M
$18.9M
2022
settled
$20.8M
$20.3M
2023
settled
$21.2M
$23.1M
2024
settled
$22.1M
$24.6M
2025
settled
$25.7M
$26.0M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Deer Lodge Medical Center16$25,708,689$26,005,690−1.2%
Barrett Hospital & Healthcare, Dillon18$48,521,137$48,185,1860.7%
Big Horn Hospital, Hardin18$16,756,576$17,460,606−4.2%
Clark Fork Valley Hospital, Plains16$31,919,973$34,800,648−9.0%
Sheridan Memorial Hospital Association Hospital, Plentywood19$19,443,647$21,267,305−9.4%
Stillwater Billings Clinic, Columbus16$14,894,359$15,150,311−1.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
155
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,194
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
20.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
82.0%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.0%
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 271314. 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 August 26, 2026.