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Critical access hospital · Harlem, Montana · 6 beds · CMS certification number 271315

Fort Belknap Health Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS March 25, 2026. Eighteen years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Operating expenses
$45.5M
$45,546,421 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$45.5M
−$45,546,421 · G-3 line 5

What stands out

  • Its result from patient care: −$44.6M (2023), −$52.0M (2024), −$45.5M (2025).
  • Medicaid paid for 69.5% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 1.7%.

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

Eighteen years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2000
settled
not filed
not filed
2001
as submitted
not filed
$15.0M
2002
as submitted
not filed
not filed
2011
settled
not filed
$20.6M
2012
reopened
not filed
$20.9M
2013
settled
not filed
$20.7M
2014
settled
not filed
$20.1M
2015
settled
not filed
$20.7M
2016
settled
not filed
$23.0M
2017
settled
not filed
$22.6M
2018
settled
not filed
$24.1M
2019
settled
not filed
$27.2M
2020
settled
not filed
$30.7M
2021
settled
not filed
$37.6M
2022
settled
not filed
$33.8M
2023
settled
not filed
$44.6M
2024
settled
not filed
$52.0M
2025
as submitted
not filed
$45.5M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Fort Belknap Health Center6$45,546,421
Beartooth Billings Clinic, Red Lodge10$21,240,951$22,069,912−3.9%
Big Sandy Medical Center, Big Sandy8$5,538,165$8,155,261−47.3%
Big Sky Medical Center, Big Sky8$21,198,540$24,063,269−13.5%
Phillips County Hospital Assn, Malta6$8,421,819$9,648,492−14.6%
Ruby Valley Medical Center, Sheridan5$9,327,621$10,740,837−15.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
29
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
59
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
0.2
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
2.7%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
1.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
69.5%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: INDIAN HE SERV (100%).

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 271315. 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 25, 2026.