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Short-term acute care hospital · Des Moines, Iowa · 607 beds · CMS certification number 160082

Unitypoint Health Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 15, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.3B
$1,264,102,901 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.0B
$1,008,999,885 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$255.1M
$255,103,016 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
20.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $218.0M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.3B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $191.8M (2023), $247.4M (2024), $255.1M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 26.7% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 24.1%.

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
reopened
$218.0M
$152.6M
1997
reopened
$238.4M
$160.2M
1998
reopened
$233.7M
$166.0M
1999
reopened
$243.3M
$166.4M
2000
reopened
$257.3M
$361.8M
2001
reopened
$274.5M
$214.7M
2002
reopened
$292.7M
$232.4M
2003
reopened
$309.4M
$240.0M
2004
reopened
$320.3M
$256.2M
2005
reopened
$354.0M
$279.8M
2006
reopened
$363.6M
$293.8M
2007
reopened
$377.2M
$309.8M
2008
reopened
$413.0M
$342.0M
2009
reopened
$424.2M
$340.3M
2010
reopened
$453.0M
$365.6M
2011
reopened
$470.7M
$373.3M
2012
reopened
$494.4M
$388.9M
2013
reopened
$508.6M
$394.4M
2014
reopened
$534.4M
$414.4M
2015
reopened
$548.8M
$427.8M
2016
reopened
$573.8M
$461.1M
2017
reopened
$589.2M
$476.8M
2018
reopened
$629.2M
$497.7M
2019
reopened
$729.4M
$561.2M
2020
reopened
$756.2M
$615.0M
2021
settled with audit
$864.9M
$718.4M
2022
settled with audit
$862.2M
$782.0M
2023
as submitted
$1.0B
$825.9M
2024
as submitted
$1.1B
$901.8M
2025
as submitted
$1.3B
$1.0B

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
Unitypoint Health Des Moines Iowa Methodist Medical Center607$1,264,102,901$1,008,999,88520.2%
Mercyone Genesis, Davenport308$495,121,236$463,837,4216.3%
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%
University of Iowa Health Care Medical Center, Iowa City743$2,642,499,199$3,090,613,569−17.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
39,216
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
195,202
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
536.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
88.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
24.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
26.7%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: IMMC (100%), home office.

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

Community benefit, as filed

Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by CENTRAL IOWA HOSPITAL CORPORATION (employer identification number 420680452) for tax year 2023, once for the 3 hospital facilities the return lists, this hospital among them. The return does not divide it among them.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 160082. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read June 15, 2026.