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Short-term acute care hospital · Denver, Colorado · 389 beds · CMS certification number 060011

Denver Health Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 26, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.4B
$1,414,557,411 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.5B
$1,476,649,351 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$62.1M
−$62,091,940 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−4.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $169.8M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.4B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$89.6M (2023), −$89.3M (2024), −$62.1M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 39.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 5.2%.

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
$169.8M
$273.2M
1997
reopened
$206.7M
$253.4M
1998
reopened
$165.3M
$263.3M
1999
reopened
$134.4M
$293.8M
2000
reopened
$204.1M
$333.2M
2001
reopened
$227.4M
$359.9M
2002
reopened
$231.7M
$378.1M
2003
reopened
$185.6M
$386.1M
2004
reopened
$211.0M
$405.9M
2005
reopened
$235.8M
$472.7M
2006
reopened
$260.2M
$544.4M
2007
reopened
$252.0M
$608.2M
2008
reopened
$301.0M
$683.9M
2009
reopened
$382.5M
$727.7M
2010
reopened
$378.3M
$753.9M
2011
reopened
$332.7M
$806.7M
2012
reopened
$352.8M
$848.8M
2013
reopened
$477.5M
$918.9M
2014
settled
$449.8M
$975.3M
2015
reopened
$508.9M
$1.0B
2016
reopened
$505.6M
$1.2B
2017
reopened
$545.4M
$1.2B
2018
reopened
$644.4M
$1.3B
2019
reopened
$1.5B
$1.5B
2020
settled
$1.5B
$1.5B
2021
settled
$1.1B
$1.1B
2022
settled
$1.1B
$1.2B
2023
settled
$1.2B
$1.3B
2024
as submitted
$1.3B
$1.4B
2025
as submitted
$1.4B
$1.5B

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Denver Health Medical Center389$1,414,557,411$1,476,649,351−4.4%
HCA Healthone Presbyterian St. Luke's Hospital, Denver321$730,774,151$545,571,58125.3%
Intermountain Health Saint Joseph Hospital, Denver306$486,530,341$563,798,422−15.9%
HCA Healthone Sky Ridge, Lone Tree273$603,476,264$464,640,28523.0%
Intermountain Health St. Mary's Regional Hospital, Grand Junction260$585,774,461$584,226,7850.3%
HCA Healthone Aurora Hospital, Aurora334$460,985,662$438,891,7334.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
20,295
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
107,818
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
296.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
75.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
5.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
39.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Indirect owner: DENVER HEALTH AND HOSPITAL AUTHORITY

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, state.

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 060011. 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 26, 2026.