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Short-term acute care hospital · Cades, South Carolina · 25 beds · CMS certification number 420117

MUSC Health Black River Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS September 25, 2026. Three years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$31.8M
$31,830,006 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$36.3M
$36,262,819 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$4.4M
−$4,432,813 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−13.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $11.3M in its first year on file (2023) to $31.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$3.7M (2023), −$40K (2024), −$4.4M (2025).
  • 2 of the 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 8.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 23.6%.

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

Three years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2023
settled
$11.3M
$14.9M
2024
settled
$29.9M
$30.0M
2025
amended
$31.8M
$36.3M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in South Carolina with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
MUSC Health Black River Medical Center25$31,830,006$36,262,819−13.9%
Cherokee Medical Center, Gaffney30$90,369,803$72,224,15520.1%
Hampton Regional Medical Center, Varnville32$36,012,436$34,862,6693.2%
McLeod Health Cheraw, Cheraw31$72,569,208$62,453,93213.9%
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center, Chester33$69,055,161$79,937,816−15.8%
MUSC Health Marion Medical Center, Mullins28$26,389,180$36,201,663−37.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,490
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
4,339
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
11.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
47.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
23.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
8.0%
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 420117. 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 September 25, 2026.