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Short-term acute care hospital · Pocahontas, Arkansas · 28 beds · CMS certification number 040047

Five Rivers Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended August 31, 2023, settled, stamped by CMS August 28, 2025. 27 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2023 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$14.4M
$14,354,784 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$20.0M
$20,015,471 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.7M
−$5,660,687 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−39.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $8.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $14.4M in 2023.
  • Its result from patient care: −$3.6M (2021), −$6.1M (2022), −$5.7M (2023).
  • 4 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 2023.
  • Medicaid paid for 10.7% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 52.5%.

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

27 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
reopened
$8.5M
$8.0M
1998
reopened
not filed
$10.2M
1999
reopened
$9.4M
$10.1M
2000
reopened
not filed
$11.6M
2001
reopened
$11.0M
$15.0M
2002
settled
$11.9M
$13.6M
2003
reopened
$12.0M
$14.7M
2004
reopened
$12.6M
$15.5M
2005
settled
$12.0M
$13.1M
2006
reopened
$12.6M
$13.0M
2007
reopened
$11.3M
$13.4M
2008
settled
$10.4M
$12.0M
2009
settled
$12.8M
$13.2M
2010
settled
$14.7M
$14.9M
2011
settled
$16.3M
$17.4M
2012
reopened
$14.2M
$16.5M
2013
reopened
$13.4M
$16.7M
2014
settled
$13.6M
$15.3M
2015
settled
$14.8M
$15.6M
2016
settled
$14.9M
$15.9M
2017
settled
$16.9M
$19.0M
2018
settled
$15.7M
$18.7M
2019
settled
$13.2M
$14.5M
2020
settled
$16.4M
$19.9M
2021
settled
$18.3M
$21.9M
2022
settled
$17.3M
$23.4M
2023
settled
$14.4M
$20.0M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arkansas with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2023.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Five Rivers Medical Center28$14,354,784$20,015,471−39.4%
Chambers Memorial Hospital, Danville30$20,969,032$23,374,059−11.5%
Arkansas Heart Hospital Encore, Bryant33$66,336,501$62,828,8965.3%
Mississippi County Hospital System, Blytheville34$17,627,986$28,161,784−59.8%
Magnolia Regional Medical Center, Magnolia29$23,403,264$31,437,236−34.3%
Unity Health - Jacksonville, Jacksonville29$6,160,389$6,625,671−7.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
447
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,990
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
6.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
21.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
52.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
10.7%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: ST. BERNARDS HE, hospital.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2023.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 040047. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2023.ZIP, read August 28, 2025.