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Short-term acute care hospital · Ventura, California · 272 beds · CMS certification number 050159

Ventura County Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 11, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$633.5M
$633,461,379 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$722.5M
$722,479,951 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$89.0M
−$89,018,572 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−14.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $101.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $633.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$100.0M (2023), −$97.9M (2024), −$89.0M (2025).
  • 4 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 28.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 14.6%.
  • COUNTY OF VENTURA 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
$101.5M
$123.8M
1998
reopened
$98.2M
$124.9M
1999
reopened
$109.4M
$131.2M
2000
reopened
$105.5M
$141.4M
2001
reopened
$110.5M
$176.8M
2002
reopened
$125.0M
$193.7M
2003
reopened
$141.2M
$207.7M
2004
reopened
$88.4M
$232.1M
2005
settled
$189.1M
$252.1M
2006
reopened
$148.1M
$242.4M
2007
reopened
$156.2M
$263.8M
2008
reopened
$185.6M
$268.1M
2009
reopened
$196.4M
$304.9M
2010
reopened
$217.9M
$311.2M
2011
reopened
$159.3M
$366.7M
2012
reopened
$279.4M
$401.5M
2013
reopened
$297.9M
$422.8M
2014
settled
$318.1M
$449.4M
2015
settled
$371.8M
$481.8M
2016
reopened
$398.9M
$527.7M
2017
reopened
$420.7M
$537.9M
2018
settled with audit
$1.3B
$689.8M
2019
reopened
$497.2M
$612.5M
2020
reopened
$486.3M
$608.4M
2021
reopened
$509.4M
$526.0M
2022
reopened
$525.3M
$554.1M
2023
as submitted
$519.9M
$619.9M
2024
as submitted
$569.7M
$667.6M
2025
as submitted
$633.5M
$722.5M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ventura County Medical Center272$633,461,379$722,479,951−14.1%
California Pacific Medical Center-Van Ness Campus, San Francisco274$1,305,563,976$1,381,740,238−5.8%
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Baldwin Park, Baldwin Park262$729,101,051$655,858,44910.1%
Kaiser Foundation Hospital West Los Angeles, Los Angeles265$534,841,722$547,224,563−2.3%
Kaiser Foundation Hospital Woodland Hills, Woodland Hills274$476,043,614$537,690,066−13.0%
St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach273$393,975,940$466,706,538−18.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
14,257
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
64,796
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
178.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
65.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
14.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
28.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • COUNTY OF VENTURA100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: VCMC HOME OFFIC (100%), hospital.

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, city-county.

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 050159. 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 11, 2025.