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Short-term acute care hospital · Paducah, Kentucky · 190 beds · CMS certification number 180104

Baptist Health Paducah

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended August 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS February 5, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$489.5M
$489,522,896 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$457.9M
$457,877,950 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$31.6M
$31,644,946 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
6.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $108.2M in its first year on file (1997) to $489.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$1.9M (2023), $18.4M (2024), $31.6M (2025).
  • 4 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 1.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 29.6%.

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

29 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
reopened
$108.2M
$102.6M
1998
reopened
$108.0M
$104.9M
1999
reopened
$111.8M
$113.8M
2000
reopened
$119.6M
$123.7M
2001
reopened
$144.1M
$134.8M
2002
reopened
$155.1M
$147.1M
2003
reopened
$168.4M
$164.6M
2004
reopened
$179.5M
$179.0M
2005
reopened
$191.0M
$186.3M
2006
reopened
$198.9M
$197.1M
2007
reopened
$217.4M
$219.8M
2008
reopened
$220.1M
$222.6M
2009
reopened
$223.6M
$224.9M
2010
reopened
$243.9M
$240.4M
2011
reopened
$242.6M
$247.9M
2012
reopened
$242.0M
$246.0M
2013
reopened
$221.4M
$238.4M
2014
reopened
$240.9M
$240.2M
2015
reopened
$265.3M
$244.5M
2016
reopened
$286.1M
$267.0M
2017
settled
$252.7M
$256.2M
2018
reopened
$262.4M
$244.2M
2019
reopened
$285.9M
$259.0M
2020
reopened
$294.9M
$298.7M
2021
reopened
$342.7M
$329.0M
2022
settled with audit
$357.2M
$364.3M
2023
amended
$391.7M
$393.5M
2024
amended
$437.4M
$419.0M
2025
as submitted
$489.5M
$457.9M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Kentucky with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Baptist Health Paducah190$489,522,896$457,877,9506.5%
Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville, Madisonville161$263,686,776$254,519,1593.5%
Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, Danville157$251,934,745$301,617,213−19.7%
Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset182$358,888,521$319,509,08311.0%
CHI Saint Joseph London, London126$252,399,758$206,910,09318.0%
St. Elizabeth Healthcare Florence, Florence181$273,843,862$252,003,1768.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
9,044
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
44,365
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
121.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
64.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
29.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

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

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 180104. 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 February 5, 2026.