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Short-term acute care hospital · Murrells Inlet, South Carolina · 119 beds · CMS certification number 420098

Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, amended, stamped by CMS June 8, 2026. 23 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$215.4M
$215,443,348 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$198.4M
$198,383,091 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$17.1M
$17,060,257 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
7.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $32.1M in its first year on file (2003) to $215.4M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $8.8M (2023), $21.1M (2024), $17.1M (2025).
  • 4 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 3.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 32.5%.

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

23 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2003
reopened
$32.1M
$37.6M
2004
settled with audit
$50.6M
$49.7M
2005
reopened
$63.8M
$61.4M
2006
reopened
$79.9M
$75.7M
2007
reopened
$90.8M
$88.0M
2008
reopened
$101.6M
$98.2M
2009
reopened
$118.9M
$111.8M
2010
reopened
$120.3M
$111.6M
2011
reopened
$128.9M
$119.7M
2012
reopened
$129.5M
$124.6M
2013
reopened
$134.9M
$127.4M
2014
settled
$143.8M
$134.7M
2015
settled
$157.2M
$140.0M
2016
settled
$154.9M
$145.7M
2017
settled
$153.4M
$151.7M
2018
settled
$164.5M
$158.8M
2019
settled
$161.9M
$154.4M
2020
settled
$159.2M
$148.4M
2021
settled
$189.0M
$167.7M
2022
settled
$182.8M
$177.8M
2023
amended
$186.0M
$177.3M
2024
amended
$209.8M
$188.7M
2025
amended
$215.4M
$198.4M

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
Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital119$215,443,348$198,383,0917.9%
Bon Secours St. Francis Xavier Hospital, Charleston147$534,682,009$502,701,0156.0%
Carolina Pines Regional Medical Center, Hartsville112$142,331,012$131,726,0127.4%
Novant Health East Cooper Medical Center, Mt. Pleasant120$176,539,011$172,534,5862.3%
MUSC Health Lancaster Medical Center, Lancaster103$162,341,024$162,623,357−0.2%
Prisma Health Oconee Memorial Hospital, Seneca144$217,503,742$176,755,31318.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
7,358
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
28,611
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
78.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
65.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
32.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
3.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: GHS HOME OFFICE, ghs home office; THG, physician group.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2025.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 420098. 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 8, 2026.