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Short-term acute care hospital · Austin, Texas · 399 beds · CMS certification number 450056

Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 4, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$821.5M
$821,502,963 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$759.5M
$759,505,345 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$62.0M
$61,997,618 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
7.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $100.5M in its first year on file (1997) to $821.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $88.6M (2023), $16.2M (2024), $62.0M (2025).
  • All 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 6.6% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 13.7%.

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
1997
settled with audit
$100.5M
$379.3M
1998
settled with audit
$98.6M
$467.0M
1999
reopened
$231.1M
$221.3M
2000
reopened
$245.0M
$212.5M
2001
reopened
$287.4M
$239.5M
2002
reopened
$309.8M
$239.2M
2003
reopened
$353.6M
$269.9M
2004
reopened
$281.9M
$208.8M
2005
settled with audit
$301.3M
$211.5M
2006
reopened
$330.3M
$228.4M
2007
reopened
$366.5M
$256.5M
2008
reopened
$391.0M
$263.8M
2009
reopened
$432.3M
$284.8M
2010
reopened
$447.0M
$292.1M
2011
reopened
$433.3M
$285.3M
2012
reopened
$487.3M
$379.1M
2013
reopened
$461.2M
$382.6M
2014
reopened
$448.0M
$376.4M
2015
settled
$483.9M
$406.5M
2016
settled
$503.5M
$417.0M
2017
settled with audit
$454.5M
$394.2M
2018
reopened
$457.6M
$400.7M
2019
reopened
$489.6M
$405.3M
2020
reopened
$486.1M
$432.4M
2021
settled with audit
$571.5M
$474.6M
2022
amended
$668.3M
$547.0M
2023
as submitted
$702.5M
$613.9M
2024
amended
$756.8M
$740.6M
2025
as submitted
$821.5M
$759.5M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Texas with 200 to 399 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin399$821,502,963$759,505,3457.5%
Corpus Christi Medical Center, Corpus Christi373$557,707,497$398,124,52028.6%
Shannon Medical Center, San Angelo377$725,544,199$620,996,42414.4%
Texoma Medical Center, Denison393$513,345,381$467,193,7789.0%
The Hospitals of Providence Memorial Campus, El Paso362$306,532,537$267,200,70312.8%
VHS Harlingen Hospital Company, Harlingen378$477,180,160$386,853,68518.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
20,794
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
126,701
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
348.1
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
87.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
13.7%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.6%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Indirect owner: ASCENSION SETON

Related organizations on its own cost report: ASCENSION TEXAS (100%), healthcare; ASCENSION HEALT (100%), healthcare.

Other hospitals with the same owner: Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas (TX), Northwest Hills Surgical Hospital (TX), Ascension Seton Southwest (TX), Ascension Seton Northwest (TX), Ascension Seton Highland Lakes (TX), Ascension Seton Edgar B. Davis (TX), Dell Children's Medical Center (TX), Cross Creek Hospital (TX), Ascension Seton Williamson (TX), Ascension Seton Cedar Park (TX).

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 450056. 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.