Short-term acute care hospital · Ozark, Alabama · 77 beds · CMS certification number 010021
Dale Medical Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS May 6, 2026. 30 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 $19.4M in its first year on file (1996) to $37.0M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$6.2M (2023), −$7.1M (2024), −$8.5M (2025).
- 4 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 22.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 18.7%.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
30 years of filings
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Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in Alabama with 50 to 99 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dale Medical Center | 77 | $37,033,122 | $45,491,515 | −22.8% |
| Andalusia Health, Andalusia | 83 | $53,176,754 | $56,204,108 | −5.7% |
| Athens Limestone Hospital, Athens | 66 | $111,773,484 | $118,799,711 | −6.3% |
| Dekalb Regional Medical Center, Fort Payne | 91 | $64,578,377 | $80,769,731 | −25.1% |
| Medical Center Enterprise, Enterprise | 84 | $66,446,417 | $60,923,155 | 8.3% |
| Baptist Health Walker Hospital, Jasper | 86 | $92,430,263 | $102,865,789 | −11.3% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 1,128S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 6,943S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 19.1days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 24.7%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 18.7%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 22.6%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 010021. 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 May 6, 2026.