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Short-term acute care hospital · Shreveport, Louisiana · 724 beds · CMS certification number 190111

Willis Knighton Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 9, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.3B
$1,293,989,519 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.1B
$1,098,314,778 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$195.7M
$195,674,741 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
15.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $197.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.3B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $167.1M (2023), $193.0M (2024), $195.7M (2025).
  • 2 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 1.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 29.9%.

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 with audit
$197.5M
$185.7M
1997
reopened
$206.7M
$196.6M
1998
reopened
$229.4M
$228.7M
1999
reopened
$250.2M
$271.3M
2000
reopened
$296.8M
$324.4M
2001
reopened
$322.4M
$355.2M
2002
reopened
$333.6M
$364.1M
2003
reopened
$351.4M
$374.2M
2004
reopened
$333.9M
$336.5M
2005
reopened
$347.1M
$350.0M
2006
reopened
$396.2M
$392.9M
2007
reopened
$432.6M
$437.3M
2008
reopened
$473.4M
$452.3M
2009
reopened
$499.7M
$504.1M
2010
reopened
$519.9M
$487.7M
2011
reopened
$550.1M
$514.6M
2012
reopened
$579.7M
$532.4M
2013
reopened
$606.8M
$457.3M
2014
reopened
$624.4M
$581.0M
2015
reopened
$690.4M
$651.7M
2016
reopened
$751.2M
$712.0M
2017
reopened
$723.5M
$597.8M
2018
reopened
$893.3M
$743.7M
2019
settled
$905.1M
$959.8M
2020
reopened
$819.7M
$864.0M
2021
settled
$927.0M
$675.8M
2022
settled
$1.0B
$946.8M
2023
as submitted
$1.1B
$910.5M
2024
as submitted
$1.2B
$1.0B
2025
as submitted
$1.3B
$1.1B

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Willis Knighton Medical Center724$1,293,989,519$1,098,314,77815.1%
East Jefferson General Hospital, Metairie526$1,056,019,228$1,132,651,127−7.3%
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center, Lafayette471$752,861,661$777,340,099−3.3%
Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans946$2,745,814,631$2,967,026,800−8.1%
Fmol Health | Our Lady of Lourdes, Lafayette396$605,874,813$513,899,86115.2%
Fmol Health| Our Lady of the Lake, Baton Rouge647$1,586,303,045$1,469,343,0727.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
32,562
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
182,783
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
502.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
69.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
29.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

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

Community benefit, as filed

Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by WILLIS-KNIGHTON MEDICAL CENTER (employer identification number 720400933) for tax year 2022, once for the 4 hospital facilities the return lists, this hospital among them. The return does not divide it among them.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 190111. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, read March 9, 2026.