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Short-term acute care hospital · Helena, Arkansas · 118 beds · CMS certification number 040085

Helena Regional Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 4, 2023, settled, stamped by CMS August 28, 2025. 28 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2023 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$10.0M
$10,004,514 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$16.5M
$16,513,567 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$6.5M
−$6,509,053 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−65.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $20.0M in its first year on file (1996) to $10.0M in 2023.
  • Its result from patient care: −$8.1M (2021), −$8.9M (2022), −$6.5M (2023).
  • 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 2023.
  • Medicaid paid for 24.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 21.7%.

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

28 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$20.0M
$17.4M
1997
reopened
$21.3M
$18.1M
1998
reopened
$20.8M
$21.2M
1999
reopened
$22.1M
$21.9M
2000
reopened
$22.9M
$24.9M
2001
settled
$22.9M
$24.5M
2002
reopened
$21.8M
$22.3M
2003
reopened
$26.7M
$27.0M
2004
reopened
$27.5M
$29.1M
2005
reopened
$31.9M
$32.3M
2006
reopened
$29.6M
$32.8M
2007
reopened
$29.3M
$33.6M
2008
settled
$31.9M
$36.7M
2009
reopened
$31.5M
$37.6M
2010
settled
$34.9M
$40.2M
2011
reopened
$31.8M
$38.5M
2012
reopened
$30.3M
$39.4M
2013
reopened
$29.2M
$38.6M
2014
reopened
$28.7M
$34.7M
2015
settled
$29.2M
$35.3M
2016
settled
$27.9M
$30.6M
2017
settled
$24.6M
$26.1M
2018
reopened
$22.8M
$27.2M
2019
settled
$20.6M
$24.1M
2020
settled
$16.3M
$21.0M
2021
settled
$15.3M
$23.4M
2022
settled
$12.8M
$21.7M
2023
settled
$10.0M
$16.5M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Arkansas with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2023.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Helena Regional Medical Center118$10,004,514$16,513,567−65.1%
Arkansas Heart Hospital, Little Rock112$206,928,268$198,346,3964.2%
Baptist Memorial Hospital - Paragould, Paragould114$68,801,834$76,943,840−11.8%
National Park Medical Center, Hot Springs126$118,822,565$115,691,3222.6%
North Arkansas Regional Medical Center, Harrison120$89,099,604$101,517,410−13.9%
Saline Memorial Hospital, Benton130$91,387,206$98,669,967−8.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
106
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
203
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
0.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
0.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
21.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
24.1%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2023.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 040085. 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.