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Short-term acute care hospital · Chester, South Carolina · 33 beds · CMS certification number 420019

MUSC Health Chester Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 9, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$69.1M
$69,055,161 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$79.9M
$79,937,816 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$10.9M
−$10,882,655 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−15.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $22.7M in its first year on file (1996) to $69.1M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$10.2M (2023), −$6.2M (2024), −$10.9M (2025).
  • None of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 14.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 26.3%.

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
settled
$22.7M
$23.1M
1997
reopened
$23.0M
$25.1M
1998
settled
$21.9M
$24.6M
1999
settled with audit
$22.7M
$24.1M
2000
settled
−$25.9M
$25.8M
2001
settled
$26.1M
$27.3M
2002
settled
$27.4M
$28.4M
2003
settled
$26.5M
$28.3M
2004
settled with audit
$26.4M
$28.7M
2005
reopened
$24.4M
$24.7M
2006
reopened
$29.1M
$26.6M
2007
reopened
$29.6M
$26.2M
2008
reopened
$15.1M
$14.2M
2009
reopened
$32.4M
$28.0M
2010
reopened
$32.7M
$27.1M
2011
reopened
$33.0M
$32.7M
2012
reopened
$35.5M
$34.2M
2013
reopened
$28.1M
$26.3M
2014
reopened
$32.2M
$29.4M
2015
settled
$33.8M
$34.0M
2016
settled
$25.7M
$26.2M
2017
settled
$20.6M
$25.1M
2018
settled
$22.2M
$27.2M
2019
settled
$10.0M
$12.0M
2020
settled
$24.8M
$30.4M
2021
settled
$37.9M
$53.2M
2022
settled
$48.2M
$54.9M
2023
settled
$56.5M
$66.7M
2024
settled
$63.7M
$69.9M
2025
as submitted
$69.1M
$79.9M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in South Carolina with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
MUSC Health Chester Medical Center33$69,055,161$79,937,816−15.8%
Anmed Cannon, Pickens42$35,088,003$27,512,12221.6%
Hampton Regional Medical Center, Varnville32$36,012,436$34,862,6693.2%
McLeod Health Cheraw, Cheraw31$72,569,208$62,453,93213.9%
McLeod Medical Center-Dillon, Dillon36$73,391,122$59,342,84919.1%
Prisma Health Hillcrest Hospital, Simpsonville45$145,382,819$112,892,31922.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
821
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,835
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
7.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
23.5%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
26.3%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
14.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: MUHA (100%), health system.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 420019. 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 9, 2025.