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Critical access hospital · Arco, Idaho · 14 beds · CMS certification number 131324

Lost Rivers Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS January 8, 2026. 22 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$14.5M
$14,525,170 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$15.7M
$15,719,095 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.2M
−$1,193,925 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−8.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $3.8M in its first year on file (2004) to $14.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$898K (2023), −$1.6M (2024), −$1.2M (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 5.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 75.8%.
  • LOST RIVERS MEDICAL CENTER holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

22 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2004
settled
$3.8M
$5.1M
2005
settled
$3.9M
$5.1M
2006
settled
$5.9M
$6.0M
2007
settled
$5.8M
$6.9M
2008
settled
$6.3M
$7.0M
2009
settled
$5.6M
$6.6M
2010
settled
$5.5M
$6.2M
2011
reopened
$6.3M
$6.7M
2012
as submitted
$6.0M
$6.7M
2013
settled with audit
$5.4M
$5.9M
2014
settled
$6.0M
$6.9M
2015
settled
$5.6M
$6.8M
2016
settled
$6.3M
$7.3M
2017
reopened
$9.1M
$9.7M
2018
settled
$8.7M
$9.6M
2019
settled
$9.1M
$10.7M
2020
settled
$8.5M
$11.0M
2021
settled
$11.6M
$12.4M
2022
settled
$11.2M
$13.5M
2023
settled
$12.1M
$13.0M
2024
settled
$12.9M
$14.5M
2025
as submitted
$14.5M
$15.7M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Lost Rivers Medical Center14$14,525,170$15,719,095−8.2%
North Canyon Medical Center, Gooding16$75,816,886$73,032,9053.7%
St. Lukes McCall Medical Center, Mccall15$66,366,964$62,972,0485.1%
Syringa General Hospital, Grangeville15$22,557,357$26,524,874−17.6%
Teton Valley Hospital, Driggs13$37,205,860$38,044,204−2.3%
Valor Health, Emmett13$24,709,593$25,971,946−5.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
11
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
95
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
0.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
1.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
75.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • LOST RIVERS MEDICAL CENTER100%

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, hospital district.

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 131324. 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 January 8, 2026.