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Short-term acute care hospital · Cedar Rapids, Iowa · 216 beds · CMS certification number 160079

Mercy Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 5, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$507.7M
$507,673,151 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$518.5M
$518,537,995 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$10.9M
−$10,864,844 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−2.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $91.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $507.7M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$51.4M (2023), −$60.3M (2024), −$10.9M (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 0.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 29.1%.
  • MERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
settled
$91.5M
$92.1M
1998
settled
$96.9M
$95.6M
1999
reopened
$105.4M
$104.7M
2000
settled with audit
$112.7M
$114.0M
2001
reopened
$122.6M
$125.4M
2002
settled with audit
$132.2M
$131.5M
2003
reopened
$150.8M
$149.0M
2004
reopened
$163.0M
$161.1M
2005
reopened
$171.1M
$173.3M
2006
reopened
$188.2M
$176.8M
2007
reopened
$190.0M
$189.6M
2008
reopened
$214.0M
$206.3M
2009
settled
$232.7M
$227.0M
2010
reopened
$259.6M
$235.8M
2011
reopened
$277.1M
$256.7M
2012
reopened
$290.6M
$251.1M
2013
reopened
$282.9M
$269.5M
2014
reopened
$286.0M
$275.0M
2015
settled
$307.3M
$285.8M
2016
reopened
$316.5M
$306.0M
2017
reopened
$319.6M
$308.0M
2018
reopened
$326.9M
$322.0M
2019
reopened
$331.4M
$337.2M
2020
settled
$330.5M
$343.0M
2021
settled
$356.7M
$353.7M
2022
settled
$381.5M
$413.7M
2023
settled
$401.1M
$452.5M
2024
settled
$415.3M
$475.6M
2025
as submitted
$507.7M
$518.5M

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
Mercy Medical Center216$507,673,151$518,537,995−2.1%
Allen Hospital, Waterloo200$417,350,969$373,184,58510.6%
Mercyone Genesis, Davenport308$495,121,236$463,837,4216.3%
Mercyone North Iowa Medical Center, Mason City199$429,463,179$551,949,591−28.5%
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
9,998
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
41,796
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
114.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
53.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
29.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
0.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCYCARE SERVICE CORPORATION100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: MR ASSOCIATES (33%), mri services.

Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, church.

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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 160079. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 5, 2025.