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Critical access hospital · Salmon, Idaho · 18 beds · CMS certification number 131305

Steele Memorial Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 18, 2026. 26 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$39.9M
$39,912,123 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$42.0M
$41,976,440 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$2.1M
−$2,064,317 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−5.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $4.5M in its first year on file (2000) to $39.9M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$2.8M (2023), −$2.2M (2024), −$2.1M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 4.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 73.2%.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

26 years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2000
as submitted
$4.5M
$4.9M
2001
settled
$6.6M
$6.9M
2002
settled
$6.1M
$6.7M
2003
reopened
$6.4M
$7.4M
2004
reopened
$8.0M
$7.4M
2005
settled
$11.1M
$10.8M
2006
settled with audit
$13.6M
$13.4M
2007
reopened
$13.5M
$14.4M
2008
reopened
$13.8M
$14.5M
2009
reopened
$14.4M
$14.7M
2010
reopened
$14.8M
$15.1M
2011
as submitted
$15.0M
$14.8M
2012
settled with audit
$16.6M
$15.7M
2013
settled
$18.2M
$17.5M
2014
reopened
$18.6M
$18.9M
2015
settled
$23.2M
$21.3M
2016
settled
$22.8M
$22.6M
2017
settled
$24.7M
$25.5M
2018
settled
$24.1M
$26.4M
2019
reopened
$25.7M
$27.8M
2020
settled
$29.0M
$30.2M
2021
settled
$30.3M
$32.5M
2022
settled
$32.6M
$34.9M
2023
settled
$30.8M
$33.6M
2024
as submitted
$35.5M
$37.7M
2025
as submitted
$39.9M
$42.0M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Idaho with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Steele Memorial Medical Center18$39,912,123$41,976,440−5.2%
Benewah Community Hospital, St Maries19$19,245,673$24,525,647−27.4%
Boundary Community Hospital, Bonners Ferry20$24,348,456$26,066,935−7.1%
Franklin County Medical Center, Preston18$51,407,602$49,506,4253.7%
North Canyon Medical Center, Gooding16$75,816,886$73,032,9053.7%
St. Lukes Elmore Medical Center, Mountain Home20$52,720,389$53,353,498−1.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
307
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,312
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
20.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
73.2%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Indirect owner: COUNTY OF LEMHI

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 131305. 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 March 18, 2026.