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Critical access hospital · Benson, Arizona · 22 beds · CMS certification number 031301

Benson Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 6, 2026. 24 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$24.0M
$23,987,331 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$29.0M
$29,013,367 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.0M
−$5,026,036 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−20.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $3.3M in its first year on file (2002) to $24.0M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$3.2M (2023), −$3.0M (2024), −$5.0M (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 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 2.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 45.7%.

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

24 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2002
settled with audit
$3.3M
$3.1M
2003
settled with audit
$6.1M
$6.6M
2004
settled
$6.3M
$6.7M
2005
as submitted
$7.4M
$7.7M
2006
settled
$8.4M
$8.8M
2007
settled
$9.4M
$9.9M
2008
settled with audit
$12.6M
$12.2M
2009
reopened
$10.3M
$12.0M
2010
reopened
$11.4M
$12.4M
2011
settled
$11.7M
$12.6M
2012
settled
$11.2M
$12.6M
2013
reopened
$10.2M
$12.7M
2014
settled
$10.8M
$13.0M
2015
settled
$12.8M
$14.2M
2016
settled
$12.9M
$13.9M
2017
settled
$12.8M
$15.8M
2018
settled
$14.7M
$16.3M
2019
settled
$13.7M
$16.7M
2020
settled
$18.9M
$19.0M
2021
as submitted
$24.4M
$22.2M
2022
amended
$22.6M
$24.9M
2023
as submitted
$23.3M
$26.5M
2024
as submitted
$23.7M
$26.7M
2025
as submitted
$24.0M
$29.0M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (critical access hospital), nearest in size, from Arizona first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Benson Hospital22$23,987,331$29,013,367−20.9%
Copper Queen Community Hospital, Bisbee14$85,401,481$77,499,5399.3%
Northern Cochise Community Hospital, Willcox24$18,371,890$21,767,049−18.5%
Page Hospital, Page25$23,789,538$24,937,281−4.8%
White Mountain Regional Medical Center, Springerville21$31,001,749$28,954,9926.6%
Wickenburg Community Hospital, Wickenburg19$48,242,620$56,189,913−16.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
136
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,164
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
14.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
45.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
2.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: TUCSON MEDICAL (100%), mgmt services.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 031301. 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.