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Short-term acute care hospital · Novato, California · 47 beds · CMS certification number 050131

Novato Community Hospital

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.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$108.7M
$108,696,897 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$114.6M
$114,643,395 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.9M
−$5,946,498 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−5.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $23.7M in its first year on file (1996) to $108.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $1.1M (2023), $4.2M (2024), −$5.9M (2025).
  • 2 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 3.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 55.8%.
  • 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
settled with audit
$23.7M
$21.6M
1997
reopened
$26.3M
$23.6M
1998
settled
$27.6M
$24.8M
1999
settled
$26.1M
$25.1M
2000
settled
$27.9M
$25.8M
2001
settled
$27.7M
$33.1M
2002
settled
$38.5M
$38.7M
2003
settled
$42.3M
$41.4M
2004
settled
$53.7M
$51.7M
2005
settled
$62.3M
$56.6M
2006
reopened
$59.6M
$58.4M
2007
settled
$64.0M
$60.4M
2008
settled
$67.7M
$63.9M
2009
settled
$61.0M
$64.7M
2010
settled
$65.3M
$66.0M
2011
settled
$60.7M
$67.0M
2012
reopened
$58.5M
$62.8M
2013
reopened
$53.6M
$63.5M
2014
settled
$60.1M
$68.4M
2015
reopened
$64.2M
$73.0M
2016
settled
$67.4M
$77.2M
2017
settled
$68.0M
$81.7M
2018
settled
$66.2M
$79.7M
2019
settled
$78.1M
$83.7M
2020
settled
$72.9M
$85.2M
2021
settled
$81.8M
$84.8M
2022
settled
$90.8M
$92.2M
2023
settled
$101.6M
$100.5M
2024
as submitted
$114.9M
$110.7M
2025
as submitted
$108.7M
$114.6M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in California with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Novato Community Hospital47$108,696,897$114,643,395−5.5%
Adventist Health Reedley, Reedley49$221,587,691$229,005,300−3.4%
Colusa Medical Center - Acute, Colusa42$47,166,021$42,448,95210.0%
Good Samaritan Hospital, Bakersfield43$67,540,355$64,162,1795.0%
Mad River Community Hospital, Arcata49$50,459,834$59,071,907−17.1%
St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Red Bluff49$185,327,788$165,776,39110.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,709
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
5,509
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
15.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
32.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
55.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
3.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • SUTTER HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: SUTTER HEALTH, healthcare.

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), Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (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 050131. 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.