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Short-term acute care hospital · Boston, Massachusetts · 459 beds · CMS certification number 220031

Boston Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 5, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.7B
$1,735,839,872 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$3.0B
$2,992,100,772 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.3B
−$1,256,260,900 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−72.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $63.0M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.7B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$1.0B (2023), −$1.1B (2024), −$1.3B (2025).
  • All 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 19.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 18.6%.

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
$63.0M
$63.0M
1997
reopened
not filed
$199.7M
1998
reopened
$154.2M
$238.5M
1999
reopened
$418.7M
$565.7M
2000
reopened
$423.8M
$588.1M
2001
reopened
$582.1M
$624.9M
2002
reopened
$545.1M
$625.1M
2003
reopened
$587.0M
$686.2M
2004
reopened
$632.4M
$844.0M
2005
reopened
$766.0M
$848.6M
2006
reopened
$802.1M
$985.9M
2007
reopened
$823.0M
$910.0M
2008
reopened
$965.9M
$1.1B
2009
reopened
$874.0M
$1.0B
2010
reopened
$881.8M
$1.0B
2011
reopened
$847.3M
$1.0B
2012
reopened
$886.3M
$1.0B
2013
reopened
$893.6M
$1.0B
2014
reopened
$964.3M
$1.0B
2015
reopened
$1.0B
$1.1B
2016
reopened
$1.1B
$1.5B
2017
reopened
$1.1B
$1.3B
2018
reopened
$1.2B
$1.4B
2019
reopened
$1.1B
$1.7B
2020
reopened
$1.1B
$1.8B
2021
amended
$1.2B
$1.9B
2022
amended
$1.2B
$2.1B
2023
as submitted
$1.4B
$2.4B
2024
as submitted
$1.5B
$2.7B
2025
as submitted
$1.7B
$3.0B

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Massachusetts with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Boston Medical Center459$1,735,839,872$2,992,100,772−72.4%
Baystate Medical Center, Springfield740$1,756,114,854$1,785,519,786−1.7%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston705$2,306,279,976$3,192,327,792−38.4%
Brigham & Womens Hospital, Boston846$3,345,285,794$4,488,282,761−34.2%
Tobey Hospital, Fall River656$1,148,901,437$1,285,459,831−11.9%
Umass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester707$2,643,050,899$2,924,030,956−10.6%

Patients and payers

Discharges
22,603
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
149,508
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
410.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
89.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
18.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
19.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: BMC HEALTH SYST, hospital mgt.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 220031. 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 5, 2026.