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Critical access hospital · Centerville, Tennessee · 25 beds · CMS certification number 441300

Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 4, 2025. 26 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$15.4M
$15,355,152 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$19.8M
$19,750,217 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$4.4M
−$4,395,065 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−28.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $2.9M in its first year on file (2000) to $15.4M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$4.5M (2023), −$4.4M (2024), −$4.4M (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 11.3% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 40.8%.

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

26 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2000
reopened
$2.9M
$2.8M
2001
settled
$6.0M
$6.4M
2002
settled
$6.3M
$6.3M
2003
settled
$7.1M
$7.1M
2004
settled
$8.5M
$8.3M
2005
settled with audit
$9.1M
$9.8M
2006
settled
$10.7M
$11.5M
2007
settled
$10.6M
$13.0M
2008
settled
$12.4M
$13.1M
2009
settled
$13.2M
$14.1M
2010
reopened
$13.5M
$14.2M
2011
as submitted
$14.7M
$15.1M
2012
settled
$11.8M
$14.8M
2013
settled
$10.6M
$13.3M
2014
settled
$13.1M
$13.0M
2015
settled
$13.4M
$14.2M
2016
settled
$12.0M
$14.2M
2017
settled
$13.3M
$15.9M
2018
reopened
$15.9M
$16.4M
2019
settled
$15.6M
$16.5M
2020
settled
$8.8M
$17.3M
2021
settled
$15.4M
$17.6M
2022
settled
$15.2M
$18.9M
2023
settled
$16.2M
$20.7M
2024
as submitted
$13.5M
$17.9M
2025
as submitted
$15.4M
$19.8M

Beside its peers

Critical access hospitals in Tennessee with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ascension Saint Thomas Hickman25$15,355,152$19,750,217−28.6%
Ascension Saint Thomas Three Rivers, Waverly25$11,463,931$14,004,448−22.2%
Erlanger Health, Pikeville25$31,621,972$19,462,54238.5%
Macon Community Hospital, Lafayette25$28,030,982$24,167,20413.8%
Highpoint Health - Riverview With Saint Thomas, Carthage25$35,154,449$29,528,79716.0%
Highpoint Health - Trousdale With Ascension Saint Thomas, Hartsville25$15,717,811$12,707,15319.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
91
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
2,765
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
7.6
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
30.3%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
40.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
11.3%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Indirect owners: ASCENSION HEALTH; BAPTIST HEALTH CARE AFFILIATES INC; SAINT THOMAS HEALTH; SAINT THOMAS MIDTOWN HOSPITAL

Related organizations on its own cost report: ST THOMAS (100%), home office; ST THOMAS (100%), home office; ST THOMAS (100%), hospital.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Ascension St. Vincent's St. Clair (AL), Presence Saint Joseph Hospital - Chicago (IL), Alexian Brothers Medical Center (IL), St. Alexius Medical Center (IL), Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital (IL), Ascension St. Vincent Kokomo (IN), Ascension St. Vincent Hospital (IN), Ascension St. Vincent Anderson (IN), Ascension St. Vincent Evansville (IN), Ascension St. Vincent Heart Center (IN).

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

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

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by Saint Thomas Hickman Hospital (employer identification number 581737573) for tax year 2022. The return lists this hospital as its one hospital facility.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total community benefit expense (line 7k)$1,764,585IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$0IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$1,412,331IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$1,412,331IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$352,254IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.0853IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202401319349305605. The IRS archive it was read from.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 441300. 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.