Critical access hospital · Storm Lake, Iowa · 25 beds · CMS certification number 161375
Buena Vista Regional Medical Center
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS October 28, 2025. Twenty years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.
Fiscal 2025 at a glance
What stands out
- Net patient revenue rose from $18.4M in its first year on file (2006) to $77.6M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: −$6.6M (2023), $1.3M (2024), $2.5M (2025).
- 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 3.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 34.5%.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
Twenty years of filings
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Beside its peers
Critical access hospitals in Iowa with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buena Vista Regional Medical Center | 25 | $77,579,345 | $75,064,866 | 3.2% |
| Franklin General Hospital, Hampton | 25 | $29,579,752 | $30,707,291 | −3.8% |
| Grundy County Memorial Hospital, Grundy Center | 25 | $40,182,578 | $34,694,380 | 13.7% |
| Hancock County Health System, Britt | 25 | $31,795,008 | $34,237,396 | −7.7% |
| Iowa Specialty Hospital- Clarion, Clarion | 25 | $98,705,037 | $95,382,181 | 3.4% |
| Pocahontas Community Hospital, Pocahontas | 25 | $18,666,192 | $17,733,485 | 5.0% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 812S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 3,103S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 8.5days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 34.0%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 34.5%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 3.5%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
Related organizations on its own cost report: TRINITY HEALTH SYSTEMS (FD).
Type of control on its cost report: governmental, county.
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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 161375. 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 October 28, 2025.