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Critical access hospital · Columbus, Kansas · 25 beds · CMS certification number 171308

Mercy Hospital Columbus

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 8, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$8.0M
$8,044,905 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$6.2M
$6,237,430 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$1.8M
$1,807,475 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
22.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $1.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $8.0M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $381K (2023), $146K (2024), $1.8M (2025).
  • None of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • MERCY HEALTH 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
settled
$1.5M
$1.7M
1997
settled
$1.7M
$1.8M
1998
settled
$1.6M
$1.8M
1999
settled
$747K
$879K
2000
settled
$1.9M
$2.0M
2001
settled
$2.0M
$2.2M
2002
settled
$2.2M
$2.3M
2003
reopened
$2.3M
$2.4M
2004
settled
$2.3M
$2.6M
2005
settled
$2.8M
$2.7M
2006
reopened
$2.8M
$2.7M
2007
settled
$3.2M
$2.9M
2008
settled
$3.0M
$3.1M
2009
settled
$3.6M
$3.5M
2010
settled
$2.4M
$2.3M
2011
settled
$3.7M
$3.7M
2012
reopened
$3.6M
$3.6M
2013
settled
$5.1M
$4.9M
2014
settled
$5.3M
$5.2M
2015
reopened
$4.8M
$4.7M
2016
settled
$4.9M
$4.7M
2017
reopened
$4.9M
$5.0M
2018
settled
$4.8M
$5.4M
2019
settled
$4.6M
$5.4M
2020
reopened
$4.5M
$5.3M
2021
settled
$4.8M
$4.9M
2022
settled
$5.0M
$5.5M
2023
reopened
$5.8M
$5.5M
2024
settled
$5.8M
$5.6M
2025
as submitted
$8.0M
$6.2M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Kansas with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Hospital Columbus25$8,044,905$6,237,43022.5%
Ashland Health Center, Ashland25$10,501,355$13,399,110−27.6%
Grisell Memorial Hospital District 1, Ransom25$6,981,982$8,452,415−21.1%
Jewell County Hospital, Mankato25$8,255,916$10,185,905−23.4%
Lane County Hospital, Dighton25$6,971,600$8,398,942−20.5%
Wichita County Health Center, Leoti25$10,390,528$13,036,260−25.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
99
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
514
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
1.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
5.6%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
48.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCY HEALTH100%
  • MERCY HEALTH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI KANSAS COMMUNITIES100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: MERCY HLTH JOPL (100%), health care.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (AR), Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (AR), Mercy Hospital Paris (AR), Mercy Hospital Ozark (AR), Mercy Hospital Waldron (AR), Mercy Hospital Booneville (AR), Mercy Hospital Berryville (AR).

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 171308. 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 8, 2025.