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Critical access hospital · Quitman, Mississippi · 25 beds · CMS certification number 251316

Ochsner Watkins Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS September 9, 2026. 22 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$24.8M
$24,831,292 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$28.0M
$28,002,128 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$3.2M
−$3,170,836 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−12.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $7.0M in its first year on file (2004) to $24.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$1.7M (2023), −$2.1M (2024), −$3.2M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 0.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 48.3%.
  • OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

22 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2004
reopened
$7.0M
$7.3M
2005
as submitted
$7.3M
$7.7M
2006
settled
$3.5M
$3.7M
2007
reopened
$9.4M
$11.1M
2008
settled
$10.6M
$11.7M
2009
settled
$11.9M
$13.3M
2010
settled
$12.6M
$13.8M
2011
settled
$13.2M
$14.2M
2012
settled
$14.6M
$15.3M
2013
settled
$17.5M
$19.9M
2014
settled
$19.4M
$20.0M
2015
settled with audit
$22.1M
$23.0M
2016
settled
$24.1M
$24.3M
2017
settled
$22.9M
$23.2M
2018
settled
$19.3M
$20.8M
2019
settled
$17.9M
$19.5M
2020
settled
$16.1M
$19.4M
2021
settled
$20.6M
$22.3M
2022
settled
$20.8M
$22.1M
2023
settled
$22.8M
$24.5M
2024
amended
$23.5M
$25.6M
2025
amended
$24.8M
$28.0M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Mississippi with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ochsner Watkins Hospital25$24,831,292$28,002,128−12.8%
Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center, Monticello25$13,178,935$13,606,668−3.3%
Monroe Regional Hospital, Aberdeen25$46,886,788$66,435,189−41.7%
Noxubee General Critical Access Hospital, Macon25$18,188,153$26,054,071−43.3%
Pontotoc Health Services - Cah, Pontotoc25$31,545,321$29,029,8868.0%
SE Lackey Memorial Hospital, Forest25$48,167,892$44,640,2277.3%

Patients and payers

Discharges
113
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,313
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
6.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
25.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
48.3%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
0.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION100%
  • RUSH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: ORMC, repairs & maint; RUSH HEALTH SYS, home office; OCHSNER HEALTH, corporate; SCOTT REGIONAL, related hospita; JC STENNIS HOSP, related hospita.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Ochsner Choctaw General (AL), Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center (LA), Ochsner University Hospital & Clinics (LA), Ochsner LSU Health Monroe (LA), Ochsner St. Mary (LA), CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital (LA), Ochsner Medical Center (LA), Ochsner Acadia General Hospital (LA), Ochsner American Legion Hospital (LA), Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (LA), Leonard J. Chabert 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).

Community benefit, as filed

Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by RUSH MEDICAL FOUNDATION (employer identification number 640345119) for tax year 2022, once for the 2 hospital facilities the return lists, this hospital among them. The return does not divide it among them.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 251316. 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 September 9, 2026.