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Short-term acute care hospital · Paterson, New Jersey · 651 beds · CMS certification number 310019

St. Joseph's University Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 22, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$1.0B
$1,034,698,000 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$1.2B
$1,150,553,019 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$115.9M
−$115,855,019 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−11.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $254.5M in its first year on file (1996) to $1.0B in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$156.1M (2023), −$115.6M (2024), −$115.9M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 12.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 16.9%.

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
reopened
$254.5M
$254.1M
1997
reopened
$263.5M
$280.4M
1998
reopened
$266.3M
$290.9M
1999
reopened
$289.2M
$313.6M
2000
reopened
$268.4M
$331.5M
2001
reopened
$268.4M
$372.0M
2002
reopened
$314.4M
$345.3M
2003
reopened
$385.9M
$370.2M
2004
reopened
$393.3M
$390.6M
2005
reopened
$394.5M
$394.2M
2006
reopened
$388.9M
$402.7M
2007
reopened
$423.5M
$422.6M
2008
reopened
$472.4M
$453.4M
2009
reopened
$502.2M
$494.6M
2010
reopened
$591.8M
$605.6M
2011
reopened
$609.4M
$643.3M
2012
reopened
$666.0M
$678.3M
2013
reopened
$689.7M
$687.9M
2014
reopened
$732.3M
$704.1M
2015
reopened
$752.3M
$746.9M
2016
reopened
$763.7M
$802.9M
2017
reopened
$772.9M
$805.5M
2018
reopened
$699.4M
$797.5M
2019
reopened
$714.8M
$816.8M
2020
settled with audit
$700.2M
$891.1M
2021
settled
$762.5M
$908.7M
2022
settled with audit
$801.6M
$918.5M
2023
as submitted
$832.1M
$988.2M
2024
as submitted
$936.0M
$1.1B
2025
as submitted
$1.0B
$1.2B

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in New Jersey with 400 and over beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
St. Joseph's University Medical Center651$1,034,698,000$1,150,553,019−11.2%
Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack819$2,845,229,184$2,957,846,736−4.0%
Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune615$1,710,775,986$1,638,744,3804.2%
Morristown Medical Center, Morristown732$2,217,117,852$1,994,457,81510.0%
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick655$1,951,529,776$1,900,801,0312.6%
West Jersey Hospital, Voorhees595$1,270,958,744$1,115,760,94912.2%

Patients and payers

Discharges
23,772
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
152,298
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
418.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
64.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
16.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
12.8%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

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

Community benefit, as filed

Community benefit is filed on IRS Form 990 Schedule H by ST JOSEPH'S HEALTH SYSTEM SUBORDINATE (employer identification number 271344467) for tax year 2023, 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 310019. 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 June 22, 2026.