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Short-term acute care hospital · Duluth, Minnesota · 238 beds · CMS certification number 240047

Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 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
−$1.1B
−$1,133,870,963 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$610.1M
$610,073,058 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.7B
−$1,743,944,021 · G-3 line 5

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $72.8M in its first year on file (1996) to −$1.1B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$63.4M (2023), −$40.2M (2024), −$1.7B (2025).
  • Medicaid paid for 20.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 50.8%.

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
$72.8M
$77.2M
1997
reopened
$84.4M
$89.6M
1998
reopened
$96.8M
$108.2M
1999
reopened
$110.6M
$124.8M
2000
reopened
$120.0M
$123.5M
2001
reopened
$137.4M
$140.8M
2002
reopened
$164.5M
$167.4M
2003
reopened
$193.3M
$202.1M
2004
settled with audit
$212.7M
$227.6M
2005
reopened
$232.9M
$245.1M
2006
reopened
$251.8M
$262.0M
2007
reopened
$266.4M
$279.6M
2008
reopened
$276.2M
$288.8M
2009
reopened
$286.4M
$293.7M
2010
reopened
$293.6M
$304.9M
2011
settled with audit
$307.2M
$323.0M
2012
reopened
$321.9M
$334.2M
2013
reopened
$354.8M
$373.6M
2014
reopened
$352.0M
$367.5M
2015
reopened
$384.1M
$391.4M
2016
reopened
$448.1M
$420.0M
2017
reopened
$442.8M
$447.7M
2018
reopened
$495.7M
$491.1M
2019
settled
$492.1M
$516.9M
2020
settled
$452.6M
$495.2M
2021
settled with audit
$488.6M
$521.5M
2022
settled
$494.0M
$540.1M
2023
as submitted
$507.1M
$570.5M
2024
amended
$251.9M
$292.1M
2025
as submitted
−$1.1B
$610.1M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Minnesota with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Aspirus St. Lukes Hospital238−$1,133,870,963$610,073,058
Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis351$1,404,516,000$1,532,298,000−9.1%
Fairview Southdale Hospital, Edina326$661,389,555$620,325,8786.2%
North Memorial Health Hospital, Robbinsdale318$660,485,240$814,324,622−23.3%
Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park357$893,227,332$757,172,36515.2%
Essentia Health St. Marys Medical Center, Duluth345$570,096,189$620,756,349−8.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
9,799
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
40,365
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
110.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
46.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
50.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
20.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: SLH HEALTH SYS (100%).

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 240047. 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 June 9, 2026.