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Short-term acute care hospital · Merced, California · 186 beds · CMS certification number 050444

Mercy Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 9, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$431.5M
$431,451,788 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$396.4M
$396,375,653 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$35.1M
$35,076,135 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
8.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $23.8M in its first year on file (1996) to $431.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $12.8M (2023), $44.8M (2024), $35.1M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 4.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 31.2%.
  • COMMONSPIRIT 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
$23.8M
$23.0M
1997
reopened
$42.3M
$43.3M
1998
reopened
$37.5M
$46.7M
1999
reopened
$42.4M
$47.7M
2000
reopened
$44.4M
$49.1M
2001
reopened
$11.2M
$12.2M
2002
reopened
$52.5M
$56.2M
2003
reopened
$68.3M
$69.1M
2004
reopened
$93.2M
$94.2M
2005
reopened
$102.8M
$104.8M
2006
reopened
$117.4M
$126.6M
2007
reopened
$143.5M
$139.1M
2008
reopened
$166.6M
$151.6M
2009
reopened
$170.2M
$158.2M
2010
reopened
$177.8M
$183.0M
2011
reopened
$234.8M
$234.9M
2012
reopened
$239.1M
$237.6M
2013
reopened
$238.1M
$244.0M
2014
reopened
$221.1M
$237.2M
2015
reopened
$305.6M
$278.7M
2016
reopened
$298.8M
$284.3M
2017
settled with audit
$307.9M
$298.7M
2018
settled
$345.5M
$311.1M
2019
reopened
$335.2M
$312.1M
2020
reopened
$321.0M
$317.5M
2021
as submitted
$345.0M
$335.0M
2022
as submitted
$360.4M
$352.3M
2023
as submitted
$385.2M
$372.4M
2024
amended
$440.9M
$396.1M
2025
as submitted
$431.5M
$396.4M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in California with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Medical Center186$431,451,788$396,375,6538.1%
Adventist Health Lodi Memorial, Lodi186$308,040,974$331,609,984−7.6%
Community Hospital of San Bernardino, San Bernardino185$250,885,202$301,256,643−20.1%
Northbay Medical Center, Fairfield189$842,640,050$855,868,313−1.6%
Salinas Valley Health Medical Center, Salinas192$699,633,076$614,287,49812.2%
Ahmc Seton Medical Center Coastside, Daly City188$134,686,742$189,667,603−40.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
10,960
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
53,626
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
147.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
79.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
31.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • COMMONSPIRIT HEALTH100%
  • DIGNITY HEALTH100%

Other hospitals with the same owner: Yavapai Regional Medical Center (AZ), St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center (AZ), Chandler Regional Medical Center (AZ), Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital (AZ), Arizona Specialty Hospital (AZ), Mercy Gilbert Medical Center (AZ), Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital (AZ), Dignity Health Arizona General Hospital (AZ), Dignity Health East Valley Rehabilitation Hospital (AZ), Dignity Health East Valley Rehabilitation Hospital-Gilbert (AZ), Phoenix Children's Hospital (AZ).

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, church.

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 050444. 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 9, 2025.