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Critical access hospital · Carthage, Missouri · 25 beds · CMS certification number 261338

Mercy Hospital Carthage

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

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$75.9M
$75,856,611 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$65.4M
$65,433,675 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$10.4M
$10,422,936 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
13.7%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $15.5M in its first year on file (2015) to $75.9M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $4.6M (2023), $15.8M (2024), $10.4M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 1.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 39.6%.
  • MERCY HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

Eleven years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2015
settled with audit
$15.5M
$16.4M
2016
reopened
$45.1M
$44.4M
2017
settled
$41.0M
$37.2M
2018
settled with audit
$46.0M
$41.5M
2019
reopened
$43.2M
$41.0M
2020
settled
$42.3M
$40.5M
2021
settled
$50.2M
$43.9M
2022
settled
$51.4M
$50.1M
2023
reopened
$58.4M
$53.8M
2024
settled
$74.0M
$58.2M
2025
as submitted
$75.9M
$65.4M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Mercy Hospital Carthage25$75,856,611$65,433,67513.7%
Madison Medical Center, Fredericktown25$22,798,275$25,435,527−11.6%
Pershing Memorial Hospital, Brookfield25$22,234,092$22,976,666−3.3%
Sullivan County Memorial Hospital, Milan25$9,663,974$13,721,994−42.0%
Washington County Memorial Hospital, Potosi25$25,732,151$28,388,641−10.3%
Wright Memorial Hospital, Trenton25$41,091,829$40,053,1952.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
978
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
4,713
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
12.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
51.6%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
39.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
1.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • MERCY HEALTH100%
  • MERCY HEALTH SOUTHWEST MISSOURI KANSAS COMMUNITIES100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: MERCY HLTH JOP (100%), healthcare.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (AR), Mercy Hospital Fort Smith (AR), Mercy Hospital Paris (AR), Mercy Hospital Ozark (AR), Mercy Hospital Waldron (AR), Mercy Hospital Booneville (AR), Mercy Hospital Berryville (AR).

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

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by Mercy Hospital Carthage (employer identification number 453808607) for tax year 2022. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$2,349,796IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$820,539IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$1,529,257IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$2,349,796IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$0IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.0435IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202421349349308712. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 261338. 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 HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 5, 2025.