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Short-term acute care hospital · Tucson, Arizona · 517 beds · CMS certification number 030006

Tucson Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS July 14, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.1B
$1,079,969,398 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.1B
$1,100,943,392 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$21.0M
−$20,973,994 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−1.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $195.9M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.1B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$23.4M (2023), −$36.2M (2024), −$21.0M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 28.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 18.8%.
  • TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
reopened
$195.9M
$198.4M
1997
reopened
$188.3M
$212.6M
1998
reopened
$198.0M
$208.1M
1999
reopened
$212.6M
$243.1M
2000
reopened
$201.6M
$213.2M
2001
reopened
$200.7M
$220.2M
2002
settled with audit
$235.2M
$258.1M
2003
settled with audit
$271.3M
$277.7M
2004
reopened
$301.9M
$311.3M
2005
reopened
$315.2M
$320.1M
2006
reopened
$359.2M
$370.2M
2007
reopened
$381.4M
$399.3M
2008
reopened
$416.3M
$409.2M
2009
reopened
$413.1M
$408.2M
2010
reopened
$415.1M
$408.3M
2011
reopened
$406.4M
$416.0M
2012
reopened
$435.5M
$424.3M
2013
reopened
$444.5M
$430.5M
2014
reopened
$449.3M
$464.6M
2015
reopened
$483.9M
$500.6M
2016
reopened
$507.1M
$510.8M
2017
settled
$533.6M
$542.6M
2018
reopened
$556.0M
$560.0M
2019
reopened
$597.7M
$598.6M
2020
reopened
$588.4M
$601.6M
2021
settled
$677.1M
$685.3M
2022
settled
$747.4M
$768.2M
2023
settled
$801.0M
$824.4M
2024
amended
$910.3M
$946.5M
2025
amended
$1.1B
$1.1B

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arizona with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Tucson Medical Center517$1,079,969,398$1,100,943,392−1.9%
Banner Thunderbird Medical Center, Glendale539$922,538,934$754,519,41518.2%
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson Campus, Tucson577$1,599,788,286$1,546,386,7803.3%
St. Joseph's Hospital, Tucson430$305,303,882$279,546,9418.4%
Chandler Regional Medical Center, Chandler465$888,505,952$829,420,5196.7%
St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix524$1,501,523,444$1,623,255,591−8.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
39,608
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
158,802
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
436.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
85.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
18.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
28.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: TMC HEALTHCARE, home office.

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by Tucson Medical Center (employer identification number 860137567) for tax year 2023. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$31,724,822IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$1,232,279IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$25,550,166IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$26,782,445IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$4,942,377IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.0413IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202423319349301487. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 030006. 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read July 14, 2026.