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Critical access hospital · Ekalaka, Montana · 25 beds · CMS certification number 271302

Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 3, 2025. 26 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$9.2M
$9,153,602 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$10.4M
$10,383,914 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.2M
−$1,230,312 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−13.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $800K in its first year on file (2000) to $9.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$2.4M (2023), −$2.0M (2024), −$1.2M (2025).
  • All 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 40.4% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 7.9%.

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

26 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2000
reopened
$800K
$1.4M
2001
reopened
$618K
$1.3M
2002
reopened
$909K
$1.5M
2003
settled
$911K
$1.3M
2004
settled
$885K
$1.3M
2005
settled
$912K
$1.3M
2006
settled
$1.2M
$1.5M
2007
settled
$1.3M
$1.7M
2008
settled
$1.3M
$1.9M
2009
settled
$1.3M
$2.0M
2010
settled
$1.1M
$2.0M
2011
settled
$1.3M
$1.9M
2012
settled
$1.5M
$2.5M
2013
settled
$1.5M
$2.3M
2014
settled
$1.5M
$2.5M
2015
settled
$1.7M
$2.8M
2016
settled
$2.2M
$3.1M
2017
settled with audit
$2.5M
$3.2M
2018
settled with audit
$2.0M
$3.1M
2019
settled with audit
$2.1M
$3.3M
2020
settled with audit
$3.4M
$4.9M
2021
settled
$4.7M
$5.6M
2022
settled
$5.7M
$7.5M
2023
settled with audit
$7.3M
$9.7M
2024
settled with audit
$8.6M
$10.6M
2025
as submitted
$9.2M
$10.4M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Dahl Memorial Healthcare Association25$9,153,602$10,383,914−13.4%
Fallon Medical Complex, Baker25$11,500,176$12,767,576−11.0%
Granite County Medical Center, Philipsburg25$6,577,167$8,151,294−23.9%
McCone County Health Center, Circle25$5,309,539$5,325,761−0.3%
Benefis Missouri River Medical Center, Fort Benton25$11,111,107$12,197,805−9.8%
Roosevelt Medical Center, Culbertson29$9,135,083$9,921,731−8.6%

Patients and payers

Discharges
41
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
7,043
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
19.3
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
77.2%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
7.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
40.4%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 271302. 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 December 3, 2025.