Short-term acute care hospital · Baton Rouge, Louisiana · 169 beds · CMS certification number 190316
The General
Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 3, 2026. Six 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 $12.2M in its first year on file (2020) to $46.7M in 2025.
- Its result from patient care: $6.9M (2023), −$591K (2024), $8.6M (2025).
- None of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
- Medicaid paid for 0.7% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 11.3%.
Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.
Six years of filings
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Beside its peers
Short-term acute care hospitals in Louisiana with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The General | 169 | $46,657,886 | $38,013,010 | 18.5% |
| CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System, Shreveport | 199 | $323,217,952 | $325,766,482 | −0.8% |
| Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge | 155 | $455,430,971 | $503,234,896 | −10.5% |
| Opelousas General Health System, Opelousas | 141 | $178,076,230 | $197,955,147 | −11.2% |
| Terrebonne General Health System, Houma | 151 | $249,145,023 | $266,733,879 | −7.1% |
| Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, Thibodaux | 170 | $302,360,926 | $304,042,451 | −0.6% |
Patients and payers
- Discharges
- 1,738S-3 line 14, col 15
- Inpatient days
- 11,170S-3 line 14, col 8
- Beds in use, on an average day
- 30.7days ÷ days in year
- Occupancy
- 18.1%days ÷ bed days
- Medicare share of days
- 11.3%S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
- Medicaid share of days
- 0.7%S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8
Who owns it
Indirect owner: GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM
Related organizations on its own cost report: GENERAL HEALTH (100%).
Other hospitals with the same owner: Baton Rouge General Medical Center (LA).
Type of control on its cost report: voluntary nonprofit, other.
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 190316. 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 3, 2026.