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Children's hospital · Little Rock, Arkansas · 336 beds · CMS certification number 043300

Arkansas Childrens Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 3, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$866.3M
$866,259,664 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$790.1M
$790,093,615 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$76.2M
$76,166,049 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
8.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $139.9M in its first year on file (1997) to $866.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $60.2M (2023), $48.6M (2024), $76.2M (2025).
  • 4 of the 5 children's hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 21.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 0.5%.
  • ARKANSAS CHILDRENS INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
1997
settled with audit
$139.9M
$155.3M
1998
settled with audit
$145.3M
$164.7M
1999
settled
$157.6M
$180.0M
2000
settled
$167.1M
$186.5M
2001
settled with audit
$177.1M
$202.2M
2002
settled with audit
$202.4M
$248.8M
2003
settled
$229.3M
$280.7M
2004
settled with audit
$253.2M
$309.8M
2005
settled with audit
$253.2M
$321.7M
2006
settled with audit
$318.4M
$359.7M
2007
settled with audit
$357.6M
$398.0M
2008
settled with audit
$398.3M
$440.2M
2009
settled with audit
$405.8M
$463.4M
2010
settled with audit
$405.8M
$488.7M
2011
settled
$416.1M
$482.3M
2012
reopened
$423.5M
$490.0M
2013
settled
$457.1M
$524.8M
2014
settled
$476.8M
$535.7M
2015
settled
$471.6M
$525.3M
2016
settled
$495.9M
$536.9M
2017
settled
$526.3M
$578.5M
2018
settled
$548.1M
$605.4M
2019
settled
$545.9M
$600.6M
2020
settled
$550.0M
$609.0M
2021
reopened
$536.9M
$608.9M
2022
settled
$628.7M
$706.9M
2023
settled
$759.4M
$699.2M
2024
settled
$787.5M
$739.0M
2025
as submitted
$866.3M
$790.1M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (children's hospital), nearest in size, from Arkansas first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Arkansas Childrens Hospital336$866,259,664$790,093,6158.8%
Arkansas Childrens Northwest, Springdale25$125,152,873$119,720,7954.3%
Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City (MO)329$1,572,516,769$1,075,770,39031.6%
Dell Children's Medical Center, Austin (TX)334$970,607,315$811,884,32916.4%
Memorialcare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach, Long Beach (CA)357$470,574,531$619,930,837−31.7%
Intermountain Health Primary Children's Hospital, Salt Lake City (UT)353$1,467,667,159$1,251,717,44914.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
9,802
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
83,856
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
230.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
68.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
0.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
21.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • ARKANSAS CHILDRENS INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: ACI (100%), home office; ACNW (100%), chain hospital.

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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 043300. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 3, 2025.