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Short-term acute care hospital · Phoenix, Arizona · 317 beds · CMS certification number 030115

Banner Estrella Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 29, 2026. 21 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$521.2M
$521,240,448 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$444.1M
$444,081,845 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$77.2M
$77,158,603 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
14.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $84.0M in its first year on file (2005) to $521.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $53.8M (2023), $60.5M (2024), $77.2M (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 33.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 12.4%.
  • BANNER HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

21 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2005
reopened
$84.0M
$120.1M
2006
reopened
$133.3M
$145.0M
2007
reopened
$179.3M
$175.4M
2008
reopened
$203.6M
$204.2M
2009
reopened
$235.0M
$213.0M
2010
reopened
$258.9M
$225.6M
2011
reopened
$241.1M
$203.9M
2012
reopened
$238.2M
$197.9M
2013
reopened
$265.1M
$216.3M
2014
reopened
$268.4M
$235.1M
2015
reopened
$276.1M
$241.8M
2016
reopened
$288.2M
$250.4M
2017
reopened
$303.3M
$256.1M
2018
reopened
$319.8M
$278.8M
2019
reopened
$335.8M
$286.8M
2020
settled
$362.8M
$315.9M
2021
settled
$435.4M
$403.6M
2022
settled
$1.8B
$382.6M
2023
settled
$445.4M
$391.6M
2024
settled
$470.8M
$410.3M
2025
as submitted
$521.2M
$444.1M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arizona with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Banner Estrella Medical Center317$521,240,448$444,081,84514.8%
Banner Baywood Medical Center, Mesa337$246,251,629$298,742,470−21.3%
Banner Boswell Medical Center, Sun City348$447,828,868$462,107,432−3.2%
Banner Del E Webb Medical Center, Sun City West323$426,943,936$413,617,6563.1%
Banner Gateway Medical Center, Gilbert286$846,560,389$836,987,3231.1%
Honorhealth Scottsdale Osborn Medical Center, Scottsdale315$542,673,317$509,268,0146.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
19,995
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
90,702
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
249.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
78.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
12.4%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
33.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • BANNER HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: BANNER HEALTH (100%), healthcare ho.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Banner - University Medical Center Phoenix (AZ), Banner Casa Grande Medical Center (AZ), Banner Boswell Medical Center (AZ), Banner - University Medical Center Tucson Campus (AZ), Banner Desert Medical Center (AZ), Banner Baywood Medical Center (AZ), Banner Thunderbird Medical Center (AZ), Banner Del E Webb Medical Center (AZ), Banner Heart Hospital (AZ), Banner - University Medical Center South Campus (AZ), Banner Gateway Medical Center (AZ), Banner Ironwood 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).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 030115. 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 May 29, 2026.