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Short-term acute care hospital · Omaha, Nebraska · 389 beds · CMS certification number 280060

CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 15, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$664.5M
$664,510,222 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$659.9M
$659,860,546 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$4.6M
$4,649,676 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
0.7%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $144.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $664.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$25.0M (2023), −$7.2M (2024), $4.6M (2025).
  • 2 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 5.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 18.2%.
  • ALEGENT HEALTH BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

29 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled with audit
$144.5M
$130.5M
1998
settled with audit
$152.7M
$144.9M
1999
reopened
$167.1M
$163.3M
2000
reopened
$184.3M
$169.3M
2001
reopened
$200.8M
$190.0M
2002
settled with audit
$208.1M
$210.4M
2003
reopened
$235.7M
$238.1M
2004
reopened
$249.0M
$225.0M
2005
reopened
$253.8M
$245.9M
2006
reopened
$274.3M
$245.3M
2007
reopened
$307.1M
$222.7M
2008
reopened
$297.9M
$295.4M
2009
reopened
$323.8M
$322.0M
2010
reopened
$307.0M
$322.8M
2011
reopened
$324.5M
$323.5M
2012
reopened
$330.5M
$330.8M
2013
reopened
$345.0M
$308.8M
2014
reopened
$315.7M
$273.0M
2015
reopened
$249.9M
$218.8M
2016
reopened
$314.1M
$335.4M
2017
reopened
$409.6M
$447.9M
2018
reopened
$437.3M
$433.2M
2019
reopened
$456.1M
$466.1M
2020
reopened
$443.5M
$467.6M
2021
settled
$485.8M
$487.9M
2022
settled with audit
$516.8M
$523.9M
2023
settled with audit
$557.9M
$582.9M
2024
as submitted
$637.0M
$644.2M
2025
as submitted
$664.5M
$659.9M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (short-term acute care hospital), nearest in size, from Nebraska first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy389$664,510,222$659,860,5460.7%
Bryan Medical Center, Lincoln478$1,076,531,289$978,342,9179.1%
CHI Health St. Elizabeth, Lincoln137$202,198,840$205,479,797−1.6%
CHI Health St. Francis, Grand Island140$140,791,266$154,548,076−9.8%
Methodist Hospital, Omaha379$855,228,000$812,743,5715.0%
The Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha643$1,815,880,059$2,676,407,964−47.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
18,608
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
105,492
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
289.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
74.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
18.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • ALEGENT HEALTH BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM100%
  • CHI NEBRASKA100%
  • COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: COMMONSPIRIT; CHI HEALTH.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Yavapai Regional Medical Center (AZ), St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (AZ), Chandler Regional Medical Center (AZ), Mercy Gilbert Medical Center (AZ), Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital (AZ), Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital (AZ), CHI St. Vincent Infirmary (AR), CHI St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs (AR), St. Vincent Medical Center North (AR), CHI St. Vincent Morrilton (AR).

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

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 280060. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 15, 2025.