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Short-term acute care hospital · Knox, Indiana · 14 beds · CMS certification number 150102

Northwest Health-Starke

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 11, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$17.9M
$17,897,743 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$19.8M
$19,803,013 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.9M
−$1,905,270 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−10.7%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $7.9M in its first year on file (1996) to $17.9M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $3.7M (2023), $1.2M (2024), −$1.9M (2025).
  • 2 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 2.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 25.7%.
  • CHS COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC 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
settled
$7.9M
$8.7M
1997
reopened
$5.7M
$4.9M
1998
reopened
$14.1M
$13.0M
1999
settled
$14.0M
$12.6M
2000
settled
$16.5M
$15.0M
2001
settled
$18.0M
$16.8M
2002
settled
$18.1M
$15.3M
2003
settled
$23.3M
$19.0M
2004
settled
$24.0M
$19.4M
2005
reopened
$20.4M
$20.4M
2006
reopened
$19.9M
$17.8M
2007
reopened
$21.3M
$18.8M
2008
reopened
$20.0M
$19.1M
2009
reopened
$7.9M
$8.7M
2010
reopened
$17.3M
$20.1M
2011
settled
$24.4M
$24.2M
2012
reopened
$21.0M
$24.1M
2013
reopened
$23.1M
$18.9M
2014
settled
$22.9M
$19.9M
2015
reopened
$25.2M
$19.8M
2016
reopened
$20.6M
$16.2M
2017
settled
$18.3M
$20.2M
2018
settled
$15.2M
$16.0M
2019
settled
$16.3M
$15.6M
2020
settled
$16.1M
$13.2M
2021
settled
$18.1M
$13.6M
2022
reopened
$18.6M
$14.6M
2023
settled
$17.6M
$13.8M
2024
settled
$17.2M
$16.0M
2025
as submitted
$17.9M
$19.8M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (short-term acute care hospital), nearest in size, from Indiana first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Northwest Health-Starke14$17,897,743$19,803,013−10.7%
Franciscan Health Crawfordsville, Crawfordsville29$60,665,563$60,430,2280.4%
Physicians Medical Center, New Albany10$59,937,925$51,956,00013.3%
Pinnacle Hospital, Crown Point18$39,727,390$43,883,635−10.5%
Uchicago Medicine Northwest Indiana, Crown Point8$31,695,095$46,254,225−45.9%
Unity Physicians Hospital, Mishawaka29$116,387,161$114,322,9071.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
329
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,111
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
21.7%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
25.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
2.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • CHS COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%
  • COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%
  • FRANKFORT HEALTH PARTNER, INC100%
  • HMA-TRI HOLDINGS LLC100%
  • LA PORTE HEALTH SYSTEM LLC100%
  • TENNYSON HOLDINGS LLC100%
  • TRIAD HEALTHCARE LLC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: COMMUINITY HEAL, hosp company; PASI, collections.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Gadsden Regional Medical Center (AL), Medical Center Enterprise (AL), Flowers Hospital (AL), Baldwin Health (AL), Grandview Medical Center (AL), Crestwood Medical Center (AL), Mat-Su Regional Medical Center (AK).

Type of control on its cost report: proprietary, corporation.

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 150102. 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 11, 2026.