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Short-term acute care hospital · Mena, Arkansas · 41 beds · CMS certification number 040015

Mena Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended November 12, 2024, as submitted, stamped by CMS May 14, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2024 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$24.0M
$23,967,725 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$29.7M
$29,725,432 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.8M
−$5,757,707 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−24.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $9.6M in its first year on file (1996) to $24.0M in 2024.
  • Its result from patient care: −$5.3M (2022), −$7.1M (2023), −$5.8M (2024).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2024.
  • Medicaid paid for 14.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 23.2%.

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
1996
settled
$9.6M
$9.7M
1997
settled
$11.4M
$10.9M
1998
settled
$13.7M
$13.2M
1999
settled
$16.0M
$14.1M
2000
settled
$15.5M
$14.2M
2001
settled
$17.5M
$16.0M
2002
reopened
$18.6M
$15.8M
2003
settled
$19.9M
$17.0M
2004
settled
$21.3M
$20.8M
2005
settled
$22.6M
$22.1M
2006
reopened
$22.5M
$23.5M
2007
reopened
$20.7M
$21.4M
2008
reopened
$23.4M
$24.4M
2009
reopened
$25.3M
$24.8M
2010
reopened
$25.5M
$26.1M
2011
reopened
$24.5M
$24.3M
2012
reopened
$26.3M
$27.1M
2013
reopened
$24.8M
$26.7M
2014
settled
$26.6M
$26.8M
2015
settled
$25.5M
$27.4M
2016
settled
$25.8M
$27.4M
2017
settled
$25.7M
$27.2M
2018
settled
$26.8M
$28.6M
2019
settled
$28.4M
$30.0M
2020
settled
$26.6M
$28.8M
2021
settled
$27.7M
$32.2M
2022
settled
$29.6M
$34.9M
2023
settled
$28.7M
$35.8M
2024
as submitted
$24.0M
$29.7M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arkansas with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2024.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mena Medical Center41$23,967,725$29,725,432−24.0%
Arkansas Surgical Hospital, North Little Rock47$91,872,459$75,632,77317.7%
Forrest City Medical Center, Forrest City48$32,889,424$37,829,546−15.0%
Mississippi County Hospital System, Blytheville34$18,243,135$27,024,824−48.1%
Siloam Springs Regional Hospital, Siloam Springs44$86,985,663$83,394,0394.1%
Wadley Medical Center at Hope, Hope36$6,210,165$13,847,124−123.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
972
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,883
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
9.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
22.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
23.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
14.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 040015. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read May 14, 2025.