Children's hospital · Austin, Texas · 334 beds · CMS certification number 453310
Dell Children's Medical Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 5, 2025. Eighteen years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $235.0M in its first year on file (2008) to $970.6M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: $230.2M (2023), $143.2M (2024), $158.7M (2025).
- 4 of the 5 children's hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 4.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 0.2%.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
Eighteen years of filings
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Beside its peers
Hospitals of the same type (children's hospital), nearest in size, from Texas first; each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dell Children's Medical Center | 334 | $970,607,315 | $811,884,329 | 16.4% |
| Childrens Medical Center of Dallas, Dallas | 406 | $2,294,785,974 | $1,918,573,812 | 16.4% |
| Children's Medical Center Plano, Plano | 224 | $508,702,710 | $472,007,409 | 7.2% |
| Cook Children's Medical Center, Fort Worth | 452 | $2,088,394,363 | $1,746,063,314 | 16.4% |
| Driscoll Childrens Hospital, Corpus Christi | 243 | $975,265,105 | $723,850,254 | 25.8% |
| Texas Childrens Hospital, Houston | 971 | $3,437,612,915 | $3,823,485,809 | −11.2% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 9,215S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 61,500S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 169.0days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 51.1%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 0.2%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 4.5%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
Indirect owner: ASCENSION SETON
Related organizations on its own cost report: ASCENSION TEXAS (100%); ASCENSION HEALT (100%).
Other hospitals with the same owner: Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (TX), Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas (TX), Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital (TX), Ascension Seton Southwest (TX), Ascension Seton Northwest (TX), Ascension Seton Highland Lakes (TX), Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (TX), Cross Creek Hospital (TX), Ascension Seton Williamson (TX), Ascension Seton Cedar Park (TX).
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 453310. 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 5, 2025.