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Short-term acute care hospital · Aberdeen, South Dakota · 50 beds · CMS certification number 430014

Avera St. Luke's

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 4, 2025. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$198.1M
$198,110,631 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$211.2M
$211,154,077 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$13.0M
−$13,043,446 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−6.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $63.4M in its first year on file (1996) to $198.1M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$15.4M (2023), −$9.5M (2024), −$13.0M (2025).
  • 3 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 8.2% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 56.6%.
  • AVERA HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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
$63.4M
$63.2M
1997
reopened
$63.7M
$62.6M
1998
reopened
$69.1M
$67.8M
1999
settled with audit
$71.8M
$73.0M
2000
settled
$76.5M
$76.0M
2001
settled with audit
$83.4M
$82.9M
2002
settled with audit
$69.0M
$68.0M
2003
settled with audit
$83.9M
$97.8M
2004
settled
$101.8M
$102.3M
2005
settled
$95.9M
$106.3M
2006
settled
$109.5M
$106.2M
2007
settled
$110.4M
$110.9M
2008
settled
$117.1M
$116.9M
2009
settled
$126.0M
$128.9M
2010
settled
$141.5M
$140.2M
2011
settled
$155.9M
$151.9M
2012
reopened
$164.7M
$158.7M
2013
reopened
$158.5M
$165.5M
2014
settled
$151.5M
$168.0M
2015
reopened
$166.5M
$175.6M
2016
settled
$186.0M
$192.9M
2017
reopened
$179.6M
$193.5M
2018
reopened
$185.0M
$191.0M
2019
settled with audit
$188.7M
$198.3M
2020
settled
$189.4M
$205.3M
2021
settled
$209.1M
$212.1M
2022
settled
$209.7M
$219.9M
2023
settled
$210.6M
$226.0M
2024
settled with audit
$201.3M
$210.8M
2025
as submitted
$198.1M
$211.2M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (short-term acute care hospital), nearest in size, from South Dakota first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Avera St. Luke's50$198,110,631$211,154,077−6.6%
Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota, Sioux Falls53$194,545,088$182,324,8456.3%
Brookings Health System, Brookings49$89,417,282$78,525,28012.2%
Monument Health Rapid City Hospital, Rapid City416$830,101,200$959,218,702−15.6%
Sanford Watertown Medical Center, Watertown81$162,395,283$168,480,440−3.8%
Sanford Aberdeen Medical Center, Aberdeen48$80,331,738$90,806,237−13.0%

Patients and payers

Discharges
2,778
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
11,474
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
31.5
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
62.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
56.6%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
8.2%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • AVERA HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: AVERA HEALTH (100%), healthcare admin.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Avera Merrill Pioneer Hospital (IA), Avera Holy Family Hospital (IA), Avera Granite Falls Health Center (MN), Avera Tyler Hospital (MN), Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center (MN), Avera St. Anthonys Hospital (NE).

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

Owners of 5% or more, from CMS’s hospital ownership file (Medicare enrollment, October 1, 2026).

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 430014. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing. Ownership: CMS Hospital All Owners and Hospital Enrollments.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, read December 4, 2025.