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Short-term acute care hospital · Cottonwood, Arizona · 86 beds · CMS certification number 030007

Verde Valley Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 19, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$199.0M
$198,962,112 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$192.4M
$192,414,926 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$6.5M
$6,547,186 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
3.3%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $31.0M in its first year on file (1997) to $199.0M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $7.5M (2023), $10.3M (2024), $6.5M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 19.4% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 32.0%.
  • NORTHERN ARIZONA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

29 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled
$31.0M
$30.2M
1998
settled with audit
$33.1M
$33.4M
1999
reopened
$40.3M
$38.1M
2000
settled with audit
$43.9M
$42.3M
2001
reopened
$54.0M
$50.3M
2002
settled with audit
$64.8M
$57.5M
2003
settled with audit
$74.4M
$67.5M
2004
reopened
$85.4M
$79.5M
2005
reopened
$92.5M
$88.7M
2006
reopened
$97.7M
$95.8M
2007
reopened
$118.0M
$105.3M
2008
reopened
$125.9M
$117.4M
2009
reopened
$135.8M
$121.9M
2010
reopened
$143.6M
$130.4M
2011
reopened
$146.2M
$139.2M
2012
reopened
$144.8M
$142.4M
2013
reopened
$140.1M
$130.8M
2014
reopened
$135.9M
$129.0M
2015
settled
$139.9M
$127.4M
2016
reopened
$140.5M
$122.1M
2017
reopened
$139.0M
$130.5M
2018
reopened
$145.6M
$126.3M
2019
reopened
$152.9M
$131.4M
2020
settled
$155.9M
$136.7M
2021
settled
$175.7M
$151.9M
2022
settled
$193.9M
$167.1M
2023
settled
$172.5M
$165.0M
2024
settled
$177.8M
$167.5M
2025
as submitted
$199.0M
$192.4M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arizona with 50 to 99 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Verde Valley Medical Center86$198,962,112$192,414,9263.3%
Banner Ironwood Medical Center, Queen Creek89$153,749,155$133,331,11113.3%
Honorhealth Sonoran Crossing Medical Center, Phoenix79$141,130,396$148,352,793−5.1%
Honorhealth Tempe Medical Center, Tempe76$50,188,805$66,703,308−32.9%
Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center, Show Low89$304,466,739$287,670,9265.5%
Western Arizona Regional Medical Center, Bullhead City90$141,110,229$54,642,92861.3%

Patients and payers

Discharges
5,115
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
19,072
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
52.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
60.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
32.0%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
19.4%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • NORTHERN ARIZONA HEALTHCARE CORPORATION100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: NO AZ HLTHCRE, home office.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Flagstaff Medical Center (AZ).

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 Verde Valley Medical Center (employer identification number 860100882) for tax year 2022. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$28,691,619IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$10,184,506IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$17,644,450IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$27,828,956IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$862,663IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.1739IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202401359349313760. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 030007. 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 19, 2025.