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Short-term acute care hospital · Lancaster, South Carolina · 103 beds · CMS certification number 420036

MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 11, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$162.3M
$162,341,024 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$162.6M
$162,623,357 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$282K
−$282,333 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−0.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $56.2M in its first year on file (1996) to $162.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$13.4M (2023), $21.9M (2024), −$282K (2025).
  • None of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 9.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 24.8%.

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
settled with audit
$56.2M
$45.0M
1997
reopened
$53.4M
$47.2M
1998
reopened
$54.5M
$54.4M
1999
reopened
$70.6M
$64.1M
2000
reopened
$77.2M
$72.7M
2001
reopened
$87.6M
$76.2M
2002
settled
$96.7M
$69.2M
2003
settled
$104.7M
$87.3M
2004
settled
$108.2M
$89.2M
2005
reopened
$93.5M
$76.3M
2006
reopened
$115.0M
$101.6M
2007
reopened
$91.6M
$89.2M
2008
reopened
$108.1M
$112.2M
2009
settled with audit
$113.7M
$109.0M
2010
reopened
$118.0M
$113.8M
2011
reopened
$119.2M
$121.9M
2012
reopened
$128.3M
$131.0M
2013
reopened
$149.5M
$148.8M
2014
reopened
$158.5M
$151.4M
2015
reopened
$161.9M
$157.6M
2016
reopened
$98.9M
$102.5M
2017
settled
$98.4M
$109.0M
2018
settled
$62.1M
$109.3M
2019
settled
$32.0M
$33.6M
2020
settled
$86.8M
$90.6M
2021
settled
$95.1M
$111.0M
2022
reopened
$109.3M
$116.0M
2023
settled with audit
$128.2M
$141.6M
2024
as submitted
$180.0M
$158.1M
2025
as submitted
$162.3M
$162.6M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in South Carolina with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center103$162,341,024$162,623,357−0.2%
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville112$142,331,012$131,726,0127.4%
Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center, Mt. Pleasant120$176,539,011$172,534,5862.3%
HCA Healthcare Colleton Hospital, Walterboro102$96,137,534$85,115,45911.5%
Roper St. Francis Hospital-Berkeley, Summerville100$177,214,535$137,010,61822.7%
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital, Murrells Inlet119$215,443,348$198,383,0917.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
5,345
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
23,239
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
63.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
61.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
24.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
9.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: MUHA (100%), health system.

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, state.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 420036. 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 11, 2025.