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Critical access hospital · Rock Rapids, Iowa · 11 beds · CMS certification number 161321

Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 5, 2025. 23 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$11.8M
$11,790,993 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$12.3M
$12,287,736 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$497K
−$496,743 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−4.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $5.0M in its first year on file (2003) to $11.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$883K (2023), −$726K (2024), −$497K (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.
  • AVERA HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

23 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2003
settled
$5.0M
$5.4M
2004
settled with audit
$5.1M
$5.5M
2005
settled
$5.3M
$5.7M
2006
reopened
$6.1M
$6.3M
2007
settled
$6.4M
$6.4M
2008
settled
$7.0M
$6.7M
2009
settled
$7.3M
$7.3M
2010
settled
$9.3M
$8.9M
2011
settled
$8.2M
$7.9M
2012
settled
$8.3M
$8.0M
2013
reopened
$8.8M
$8.5M
2014
settled
$8.7M
$8.6M
2015
settled
$8.8M
$8.4M
2016
settled
$8.8M
$8.6M
2017
settled
$9.3M
$9.0M
2018
settled
$9.5M
$9.3M
2019
settled
$591K
$2.0M
2020
reopened
$6.4M
$8.5M
2021
reopened
$8.2M
$9.3M
2022
reopened
$9.1M
$9.7M
2023
settled
$9.1M
$10.0M
2024
settled
$10.9M
$11.6M
2025
as submitted
$11.8M
$12.3M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital11$11,790,993$12,287,736−4.2%
Community Memorial Hospital, Sumner16$19,021,432$19,470,930−2.4%
Decatur County Hospital, Leon11$26,931,590$27,897,590−3.6%
Mercyone Genesis Dewitt Medical Center, Dewitt13$34,299,283$38,770,411−13.0%
Mercyone New Hampton Medical Center, New Hampton11$23,191,316$21,593,8656.9%
Mercyone Dyersville Medical Center, Dyersville13$8,585,337$7,903,1428.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
65
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
625
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
1.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
15.6%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
69.4%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • AVERA HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: AVERA MCKENNAN (100%), health care adm.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Avera Holy Family Hospital (IA), Avera Granite Falls Health Center (MN), Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center (MN), Avera Tyler Hospital (MN), Avera St. Anthonys Hospital (NE), Avera Creighton Hospital (NE).

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

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 161321. 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.