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Critical access hospital · Custer, South Dakota · 12 beds · CMS certification number 431323

Monument Health Custer Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 8, 2025. 24 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$31.1M
$31,120,701 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$31.3M
$31,276,735 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$156K
−$156,034 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−0.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $6.9M in its first year on file (2002) to $31.1M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$2.0M (2023), −$530K (2024), −$156K (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 6.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 60.1%.

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

24 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2002
settled
$6.9M
$7.6M
2003
reopened
$6.8M
$8.3M
2004
reopened
$8.7M
$9.2M
2005
reopened
$9.2M
$10.1M
2006
reopened
$8.6M
$9.2M
2007
reopened
$8.8M
$9.6M
2008
settled
$10.7M
$10.4M
2009
reopened
$9.8M
$10.7M
2010
settled
$11.3M
$11.5M
2011
settled
$14.2M
$15.5M
2012
as submitted
$14.7M
$16.0M
2013
settled
$14.1M
$17.0M
2014
reopened
$14.7M
$18.7M
2015
settled
$17.1M
$19.7M
2016
reopened
$18.6M
$21.2M
2017
settled
$18.5M
$24.7M
2018
settled with audit
$19.1M
$24.5M
2019
settled
$19.2M
$23.9M
2020
settled
$20.1M
$26.8M
2021
settled
$22.1M
$29.4M
2022
settled
$26.8M
$31.5M
2023
settled
$27.8M
$29.8M
2024
settled
$29.1M
$29.6M
2025
as submitted
$31.1M
$31.3M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in South Dakota with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Monument Health Custer Hospital12$31,120,701$31,276,735−0.5%
Avera Gregory Hospital, Gregory13$23,219,628$27,414,061−18.1%
Bowdle Hospital, Bowdle12$10,059,158$11,588,978−15.2%
Community Memorial Hospital, Burke16$8,175,984$8,643,218−5.7%
Faulkton Area Medical Center, Faulkton12$12,389,252$12,345,0970.4%
Wagner Community Memorial Hospital, Wagner15$20,502,850$19,331,1535.7%

Patients and payers

Discharges
339
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,317
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
6.4
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
52.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
60.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: MONUMENT HEALTH (100%), acute care.

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

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 431323. 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 8, 2025.