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Critical access hospital · Tracy, Minnesota · 18 beds · CMS certification number 241303

Sanford Tracy Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 3, 2026. 25 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$14.2M
$14,188,371 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$13.5M
$13,537,521 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$651K
$650,850 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
4.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $5.0M in its first year on file (2001) to $14.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $302K (2023), $98K (2024), $651K (2025).
  • 2 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 1.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 49.7%.
  • SANFORD holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

25 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2001
reopened
$5.0M
$5.3M
2002
settled
$5.3M
$5.5M
2003
reopened
$6.1M
$5.9M
2004
reopened
$6.3M
$6.4M
2005
settled
$7.7M
$7.3M
2006
reopened
$8.4M
$8.4M
2007
settled with audit
$8.9M
$8.8M
2008
settled
$9.8M
$9.6M
2009
settled
$10.2M
$9.9M
2010
settled with audit
$11.1M
$11.3M
2011
settled with audit
$10.0M
$10.1M
2012
settled
$10.1M
$10.5M
2013
reopened
$10.0M
$10.4M
2014
reopened
$10.1M
$10.7M
2015
reopened
$10.3M
$10.8M
2016
settled
$8.2M
$10.4M
2017
settled
$8.9M
$10.1M
2018
settled
$9.0M
$9.3M
2019
settled
$10.3M
$10.1M
2020
settled
$12.4M
$10.6M
2021
settled
$11.9M
$11.6M
2022
settled
$12.8M
$12.3M
2023
settled
$13.1M
$12.8M
2024
settled
$13.2M
$13.1M
2025
as submitted
$14.2M
$13.5M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Minnesota with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Sanford Tracy Medical Center18$14,188,371$13,537,5214.6%
Astera Health, Wadena18$94,537,121$102,838,666−8.8%
Glacial Ridge Hospital, Glenwood19$58,856,825$62,567,040−6.3%
Bigfork Valley Hospital, Bigfork20$24,953,935$31,303,544−25.4%
Ridgeview Sibley Medical Center, Arlington20$23,006,989$19,602,95214.8%
Windom Area Health, Windom18$32,755,631$32,095,0722.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
102
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
493
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
1.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
7.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
49.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • SANFORD100%

Indirect owner: SANFORD HEALTH

Related organizations on its own cost report: SANFORD, health network; SANFORD CLINIC, health network.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Sanford Sheldon Medical Center (IA), Sanford Worthington Medical Center (MN), Sanford Bemidji Medical Center (MN), Sanford Westbrook Medical Center (MN), Sanford Wheaton Medical Center (MN), Sanford Jackson Medical Center (MN), Sanford Bagley Medical Center (MN), Sanford Canby Medical Center (MN).

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 241303. 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 June 3, 2026.