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Critical access hospital · St. Marys, Pennsylvania · 25 beds · CMS certification number 391315

Penn Highlands Elk

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 9, 2025. Ten years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$68.7M
$68,738,828 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$64.6M
$64,557,824 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$4.2M
$4,181,004 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
6.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $36.6M in its first year on file (2016) to $68.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$358K (2023), $786K (2024), $4.2M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 4.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 43.1%.

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

Ten years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2016
reopened
$36.6M
$36.2M
2017
settled with audit
$58.1M
$56.8M
2018
settled
$60.1M
$60.7M
2019
settled
$61.9M
$61.9M
2020
settled
$60.3M
$59.6M
2021
settled
$64.1M
$62.5M
2022
settled
$67.7M
$64.7M
2023
settled
$67.4M
$67.8M
2024
as submitted
$67.0M
$66.2M
2025
as submitted
$68.7M
$64.6M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Pennsylvania with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Penn Highlands Elk25$68,738,828$64,557,8246.1%
Barnes-Kasson County Hospital, Susquehanna25$15,769,766$18,403,068−16.7%
Endless Mountains Health Systems, Montrose25$20,081,179$25,249,907−25.7%
Geisinger Jersey Shore Hospital, Jersey Shore25$51,519,876$44,666,81813.3%
Troy Community Hospital, Troy25$36,155,156$31,524,96912.8%
Penn Highlands Tyrone, Tyrone25$29,653,925$27,621,1006.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
939
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
4,357
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
12.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
47.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
43.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: DUBOIS REGIONAL, health facility; PENN HIGHLANDS, home office.

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 391315. 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 9, 2025.