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Short-term acute care hospital · Sacramento, California · 523 beds · CMS certification number 050108

Sutter Medical Center Sacramento

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 29, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.9B
$1,879,221,523 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.9B
$1,897,867,016 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$18.6M
−$18,645,493 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−1.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $205.4M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.9B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $77.4M (2023), $60.3M (2024), −$18.6M (2025).
  • 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 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 9.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 21.1%.
  • SUTTER HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

30 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$205.4M
$227.6M
1997
reopened
$255.3M
$259.7M
1998
reopened
$307.5M
$298.4M
1999
reopened
$308.3M
$287.3M
2000
reopened
$326.6M
$269.1M
2001
reopened
$374.0M
$287.9M
2002
reopened
$493.6M
$353.5M
2003
reopened
$586.7M
$424.5M
2004
settled with audit
$575.7M
$474.6M
2005
reopened
$564.0M
$456.4M
2006
reopened
$593.0M
$482.2M
2007
reopened
$647.6M
$501.4M
2008
reopened
$688.4M
$492.9M
2009
reopened
$710.7M
$520.9M
2010
settled
$806.3M
$529.0M
2011
reopened
$813.8M
$554.1M
2012
reopened
$847.0M
$584.4M
2013
reopened
$863.9M
$592.5M
2014
settled
$872.0M
$530.3M
2015
settled
$980.6M
$699.1M
2016
reopened
$1.0B
$738.0M
2017
reopened
$1.1B
$1.1B
2018
reopened
$1.2B
$1.2B
2019
reopened
$1.3B
$1.3B
2020
as submitted
$1.2B
$1.3B
2021
as submitted
$1.3B
$1.3B
2022
as submitted
$1.4B
$1.4B
2023
amended
$1.6B
$1.5B
2024
amended
$1.8B
$1.8B
2025
as submitted
$1.9B
$1.9B

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in California with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Sutter Medical Center Sacramento523$1,879,221,523$1,897,867,016−1.0%
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach512$1,936,386,594$1,981,576,036−2.3%
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals - Orange County - Anaheim, Anaheim531$1,317,840,104$1,174,298,13610.9%
Riverside Community Hospital, Riverside531$884,006,109$681,972,77422.9%
Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego545$1,140,520,667$1,320,378,675−15.8%
Southern California Hospital at Hollywood, Hollywood516$398,956,767$443,716,407−11.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
33,208
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
158,823
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
436.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
83.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
21.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
9.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • SUTTER HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: SUTTER HEALTH (100%), health care; SAC SIERRA REGI (100%), health care.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Sutter Mills Peninsula Medical Center, Burlingame Campus (CA), California Pacific Medical Center (CA), Sutter Amador Hospital (CA), Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Summit Campus (CA), California Pacific Medical Center-Van Ness Campus (CA), California Pacific Medical Center-Mission Bernal Campus (CA), Sutter Solano Medical Center (CA), Novato Community Hospital (CA), Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital (CA), Alta Bates Summit Medical Center-Alta Bates Campus (CA), Sutter Roseville Medical Center (CA), Sutter Tracy Community Hospital (CA).

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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 050108. 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read June 29, 2026.