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Short-term acute care hospital · Buffalo, New York · 410 beds · CMS certification number 330219

Erie County Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 16, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$766.9M
$766,921,179 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$985.5M
$985,459,638 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$218.5M
−$218,538,459 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−28.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $155.8M in its first year on file (1996) to $766.9M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$193.6M (2023), −$123.7M (2024), −$218.5M (2025).
  • All 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 5.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 15.2%.

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

30 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$155.8M
$181.5M
1997
settled with audit
$146.7M
$177.8M
1998
settled with audit
$144.0M
$175.2M
1999
reopened
$163.8M
$183.5M
2000
reopened
$186.6M
$196.9M
2001
reopened
$191.4M
$199.6M
2002
reopened
$216.5M
$208.9M
2003
reopened
$269.3M
$265.5M
2004
reopened
$237.2M
$289.7M
2005
reopened
$254.1M
$295.2M
2006
reopened
$296.8M
$310.7M
2007
reopened
$328.2M
$337.1M
2008
reopened
$373.7M
$376.8M
2009
reopened
$367.8M
$411.6M
2010
reopened
$392.1M
$407.0M
2011
reopened
$399.1M
$428.7M
2012
reopened
$425.1M
$454.6M
2013
reopened
$427.6M
$465.5M
2014
reopened
$477.6M
$511.9M
2015
reopened
$501.7M
$547.7M
2016
reopened
$533.6M
$588.6M
2017
settled
$544.8M
$636.9M
2018
reopened
$572.7M
$653.9M
2019
reopened
$600.6M
$744.8M
2020
settled
$555.5M
$745.1M
2021
settled
$636.1M
$720.9M
2022
amended
$604.4M
$738.6M
2023
amended
$680.0M
$873.6M
2024
amended
$794.2M
$917.9M
2025
as submitted
$766.9M
$985.5M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in New York with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Erie County Medical Center410$766,921,179$985,459,638−28.5%
Bronxcare Health System, Bronx454$945,951,898$1,004,126,384−6.2%
Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, Brooklyn451$834,800,662$1,285,476,727−54.0%
Jacobi Medical Center, Bronx440$952,530,739$1,488,607,966−56.3%
Lenox Hill Hospital, New York423$1,694,085,621$2,258,163,667−33.3%
Wilson Hospital and Binghamton General Hospital, Binghamton420$1,097,093,231$1,287,166,678−17.3%

Patients and payers

Discharges
14,912
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
108,576
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
298.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
73.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
15.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 330219. 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 June 16, 2026.