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Short-term acute care hospital · Laurel, Mississippi · 268 beds · CMS certification number 250058

South Central Regional Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 19, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$208.2M
$208,209,124 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$207.9M
$207,936,494 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$273K
$272,630 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
0.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $64.3M in its first year on file (1997) to $208.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$7.9M (2023), $24.8M (2024), $273K (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 16.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 29.7%.

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
not filed
$58.3M
1997
settled with audit
$64.3M
$62.8M
1998
settled
$63.5M
$64.2M
1999
as submitted
$66.6M
$65.5M
2000
settled
$72.2M
$71.3M
2001
settled
$77.5M
$76.4M
2002
as submitted
$81.7M
$82.4M
2003
as submitted
$102.4M
$100.5M
2004
settled
$116.3M
$114.2M
2005
settled
$119.7M
$117.8M
2006
reopened
$133.0M
$129.6M
2007
reopened
$137.6M
$141.6M
2008
reopened
$130.1M
$131.7M
2009
reopened
$127.5M
$126.7M
2010
reopened
$133.7M
$134.4M
2011
reopened
$134.5M
$138.0M
2012
reopened
$134.5M
$142.1M
2013
reopened
$149.3M
$152.0M
2014
settled
$134.3M
$135.3M
2015
settled
$133.9M
$126.0M
2016
settled
$120.5M
$118.3M
2017
settled
$128.5M
$124.9M
2018
settled
$134.5M
$129.7M
2019
settled
$143.8M
$142.5M
2020
settled
$138.5M
$138.0M
2021
settled
$151.0M
$150.0M
2022
settled
$146.9M
$148.8M
2023
settled
$149.4M
$157.3M
2024
as submitted
$196.5M
$171.7M
2025
as submitted
$208.2M
$207.9M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
South Central Regional Medical Center268$208,209,124$207,936,4940.1%
BMH - Desoto, Southaven281$394,484,872$345,722,99412.4%
BMH-North Mississippi, Oxford186$297,941,483$259,806,64912.8%
Merit Health Central, Jackson238$88,195,451$88,213,830−0.0%
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport, Gulfport291$731,186,038$919,744,524−25.8%
Ochsner Rush Medical Center, Meridian191$170,632,290$179,046,448−4.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
6,486
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
28,977
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
79.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
29.6%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
29.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
16.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: SCRMC CLINIC, patient care.

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, county.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 250058. 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 19, 2026.