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Critical access hospital · Barrow, Alaska · 10 beds · CMS certification number 021312

Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2023, settled, stamped by CMS April 8, 2025. Fourteen years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2023 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$59.2M
$59,233,911 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$119.8M
$119,752,044 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$60.5M
−$60,518,133 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−102.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $81.3M in its first year on file (2018) to $74.9M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$60.5M (2023), $33.6M (2024), −$23.2M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2023.
  • Medicaid paid for 33.7% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 43.7%.

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

Fourteen years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2012
reopened
not filed
$46.3M
2013
reopened
not filed
$52.6M
2014
reopened
not filed
$38.9M
2015
reopened
not filed
$38.8M
2016
settled
not filed
$45.4M
2017
settled
not filed
$45.2M
2018
settled
$81.3M
$76.2M
2019
settled
$33.5M
$82.3M
2020
settled with audit
$43.1M
$85.5M
2021
settled
$42.6M
$96.7M
2022
settled
$57.8M
$105.1M
2023
settled
$59.2M
$119.8M
2024
as submitted
$159.1M
$125.5M
2025
as submitted
$74.9M
$98.1M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Alaska with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2023.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Samuel Simmonds Memorial Hospital10$59,233,911$119,752,044−102.2%
Cordova Community Hospital, Cordova13$14,778,367$15,694,440−6.2%
The Petersburg Medical Center, Petersburg12$19,518,522$21,597,275−10.7%
Providence Seward Medical Center, Seward6$29,673,662$25,188,15015.1%
Providence Valdez Medical Center, Valdez11$20,895,315$19,803,4635.2%
Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium, Wrangell8$14,303,710$14,354,247−0.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
353
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
979
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
2.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
26.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
43.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
33.7%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: IHS; ANTHC.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2023.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 021312. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2023.ZIP, read April 8, 2025.