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Short-term acute care hospital · Escondido, California · 292 beds · CMS certification number 050115

Palomar Medical Center Escondido

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 16, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$628.8M
$628,761,959 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$673.4M
$673,449,675 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$44.7M
−$44,687,716 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−7.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $124.2M in its first year on file (1997) to $628.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $12.6M (2023), −$24.0M (2024), −$44.7M (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.

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
reopened
$124.2M
$132.6M
1998
reopened
$135.5M
$140.9M
1999
reopened
$147.0M
$152.8M
2000
reopened
$145.8M
$161.9M
2001
reopened
$170.2M
$172.7M
2002
reopened
$186.8M
$188.9M
2003
reopened
$200.0M
$196.2M
2004
reopened
$218.7M
$219.1M
2005
reopened
$244.8M
$240.4M
2006
reopened
$247.3M
$253.5M
2007
reopened
$258.6M
$267.3M
2008
reopened
$290.5M
$297.2M
2009
reopened
$308.5M
$304.5M
2010
reopened
$322.1M
$317.3M
2011
settled
$332.9M
$331.0M
2012
reopened
$357.0M
$353.2M
2013
settled
$423.7M
$461.6M
2014
reopened
$443.5M
$463.5M
2015
reopened
$487.0M
$488.2M
2016
reopened
$517.9M
$525.7M
2017
reopened
$549.6M
$550.6M
2018
reopened
$562.0M
$566.3M
2019
settled with audit
$577.0M
$556.0M
2020
as submitted
$561.4M
$548.6M
2021
amended
$591.3M
$544.6M
2022
as submitted
$586.9M
$562.1M
2023
as submitted
$630.5M
$618.0M
2024
as submitted
$573.4M
$597.4M
2025
as submitted
$628.8M
$673.4M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in California with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Palomar Medical Center Escondido292$628,761,959$673,449,675−7.1%
Adventist Health Bakersfield, Bakersfield300$732,281,964$796,251,987−8.7%
Keck Hospital of USC, Los Angeles307$1,476,088,922$1,777,593,581−20.4%
Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center, Thousand Oaks296$689,239,175$529,059,90023.2%
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center, Mission Hills289$623,519,926$621,812,6870.3%
Providence St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton290$682,569,907$984,631,020−44.3%

Patients and payers

Discharges
29,984
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
97,123
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
266.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
91.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
20.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: PALOMAR HEALTH, health care sys; PALOMAR HEALTH, health care sys; PALOMAR HEALTH, health care sys; PALOMAR HEALTH, health care sys; PALOMAR HEALTH, health care sys.

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, hospital district.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 050115. 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 December 16, 2025.