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Short-term acute care hospital · Wichita, Kansas · 621 beds · CMS certification number 170122

Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 11, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$808.2M
$808,154,361 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$824.3M
$824,277,428 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$16.1M
−$16,123,067 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−2.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $443.1M in its first year on file (1996) to $808.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$15.1M (2023), −$69.0M (2024), −$16.1M (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.
  • ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
$443.1M
$457.4M
1997
reopened
$424.3M
$467.5M
1998
reopened
$387.0M
$385.7M
1999
reopened
$421.7M
$389.5M
2000
reopened
$376.7M
$391.1M
2001
reopened
$405.5M
$418.9M
2002
reopened
$437.9M
$455.9M
2003
reopened
$456.0M
$467.2M
2004
reopened
$482.5M
$480.7M
2005
reopened
$487.8M
$479.0M
2006
reopened
$509.2M
$505.2M
2007
reopened
$520.2M
$521.8M
2008
reopened
$539.4M
$542.4M
2009
reopened
$570.7M
$556.1M
2010
reopened
$569.4M
$564.7M
2011
reopened
not filed
$510.5M
2012
reopened
$529.7M
$519.5M
2013
reopened
$534.4M
$510.2M
2014
settled with audit
$534.4M
$510.7M
2015
reopened
$538.9M
$517.8M
2016
reopened
$536.1M
$524.2M
2017
reopened
$536.8M
$523.0M
2018
reopened
$560.5M
$501.3M
2019
reopened
$571.5M
$538.5M
2020
reopened
$574.1M
$582.2M
2021
settled with audit
$627.8M
$634.3M
2022
settled with audit
$625.6M
$673.0M
2023
as submitted
$707.7M
$722.8M
2024
as submitted
$701.0M
$770.0M
2025
as submitted
$808.2M
$824.3M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ascension Via Christi Hospitals Wichita621$808,154,361$824,277,428−2.0%
Adventhealth Shawnee Mission, Shawnee Mission331$859,647,397$813,176,7265.4%
Overland Park Regional Medical Center, Overland Park265$504,118,050$298,409,99740.8%
Stormont Vail Hospital, Topeka442$1,010,164,312$1,006,687,5720.3%
The University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City974$3,227,321,279$4,426,914,152−37.2%
Wesley Medical Center, Wichita630$1,077,162,813$675,179,71337.3%

Patients and payers

Discharges
28,308
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
160,174
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
440.0
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
70.7%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
25.0%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • ASCENSION VIA CHRISTI HEALTH INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: VIA CHRISTI HEA (100%), management svcs.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Ascension Via Christi Hospital Manhattan (KS), Ascension Via Christi Hospital St. Teresa (KS), Wamego Health Center (KS), Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation Hospital (KS).

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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 170122. 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 HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read March 11, 2026.