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Short-term acute care hospital · Columbia, South Carolina · 180 beds · CMS certification number 420026

Columbia Medical Center Downtown

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS September 30, 2026. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$325.6M
$325,635,421 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$356.4M
$356,413,828 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$30.8M
−$30,778,407 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−9.4%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $103.8M in its first year on file (1996) to $325.6M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$51.8M (2023), $1.3M (2024), −$30.8M (2025).
  • 2 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 5.8% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 26.6%.

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

29 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
as submitted
$103.8M
$87.8M
1997
as submitted
$118.4M
$98.5M
1998
as submitted
$118.9M
$108.8M
1999
as submitted
$125.4M
$122.7M
2000
as submitted
$136.5M
$133.3M
2001
settled with audit
$71.6M
$73.5M
2002
settled with audit
$203.3M
$193.9M
2003
settled
$215.1M
$193.7M
2004
settled with audit
$245.7M
$244.8M
2005
reopened
$260.2M
$274.7M
2006
settled
$261.9M
$265.0M
2007
reopened
$261.2M
$255.5M
2008
settled with audit
$260.3M
$260.1M
2009
reopened
$271.7M
$265.1M
2010
reopened
$266.4M
$268.5M
2011
settled
$233.6M
$276.1M
2012
settled
$227.8M
$238.5M
2013
settled
$249.0M
$244.1M
2014
settled
$253.9M
$241.5M
2016
settled
$243.1M
$253.6M
2017
settled
$252.1M
$271.0M
2018
settled
$234.8M
$255.6M
2019
settled
$236.8M
$244.2M
2020
settled
$202.9M
$235.1M
2021
settled
$167.1M
$188.1M
2022
settled
$143.3M
$203.1M
2023
settled
$205.0M
$256.8M
2024
as submitted
$291.3M
$290.1M
2025
as submitted
$325.6M
$356.4M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in South Carolina with 100 to 199 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Columbia Medical Center Downtown180$325,635,421$356,413,828−9.4%
Aiken Regional Medical Centers, Aiken197$274,521,010$236,340,43613.9%
Beaufort County Memorial Hospital, Beaufort167$339,663,599$366,283,160−7.8%
Bon Secours St. Francis Xavier Hospital, Charleston147$534,682,009$502,701,0156.0%
Conway Medical Center, Conway163$329,348,232$391,695,745−18.9%
Prisma Health Tuomey Hospital, Sumter159$233,233,877$226,693,4842.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
9,689
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
47,928
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
131.7
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
73.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
26.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.8%
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 420026. 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 September 30, 2026.