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Short-term acute care hospital · Iowa City, Iowa · 743 beds · CMS certification number 160058

University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS May 6, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$2.6B
$2,642,499,199 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$3.1B
$3,090,613,569 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$448.1M
−$448,114,370 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−17.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $394.0M in its first year on file (1997) to $2.6B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$185.1M (2023), −$155.9M (2024), −$448.1M (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 3.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 19.9%.

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

29 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
reopened
$394.0M
$404.1M
1998
reopened
$386.0M
$418.5M
1999
reopened
$1.0B
$447.9M
2000
reopened
$1.1B
$474.4M
2001
reopened
$456.5M
$536.7M
2002
reopened
$485.3M
$571.2M
2003
reopened
$516.2M
$604.6M
2004
reopened
$544.7M
$645.7M
2005
reopened
$576.7M
$664.1M
2006
reopened
$713.1M
$721.7M
2007
reopened
$789.8M
$781.1M
2008
reopened
$810.9M
$832.0M
2009
reopened
$863.1M
$919.5M
2010
reopened
$891.1M
$906.3M
2011
reopened
$974.6M
$962.3M
2012
reopened
$1.0B
$1.1B
2013
reopened
$1.1B
$1.1B
2014
reopened
$1.1B
$1.1B
2015
reopened
$1.2B
$1.2B
2016
reopened
$1.4B
$1.4B
2017
reopened
$1.4B
$1.5B
2018
reopened
$1.5B
$1.6B
2019
reopened
$1.5B
$1.8B
2020
reopened
$1.6B
$1.9B
2021
reopened
$1.7B
$2.1B
2022
settled with audit
$2.1B
$2.2B
2023
amended
$2.3B
$2.4B
2024
amended
$2.5B
$2.6B
2025
amended
$2.6B
$3.1B

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center743$2,642,499,199$3,090,613,569−17.0%
Mercyone Genesis, Davenport308$495,121,236$463,837,4216.3%
Unitypoint Health Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines607$1,264,102,901$1,008,999,88520.2%
Mercyone Des Moines Medical Center, Des Moines519$992,800,012$1,235,911,928−24.5%
St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids294$546,318,918$374,436,32831.5%
St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Sioux City245$311,404,440$286,851,3697.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
33,861
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
224,430
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
616.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
82.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
19.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
3.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: UNIV OF IOWA (100%), state universit.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 160058. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read May 6, 2026.