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Critical access hospital · Palacios, Texas · 17 beds · CMS certification number 451332

Palacios Community Medical Center

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 24, 2026. 24 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$7.2M
$7,228,953 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$6.9M
$6,915,476 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$313K
$313,477 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
4.3%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $1.4M in its first year on file (2002) to $7.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $224K (2023), −$1.1M (2024), $313K (2025).
  • 1 of the 5 critical access hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.

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
reopened
$1.4M
$3.3M
2003
settled
$2.6M
$2.9M
2004
settled
$2.1M
$3.2M
2005
settled
$3.3M
$2.9M
2006
reopened
$2.3M
$2.8M
2007
reopened
$2.5M
$2.9M
2008
reopened
$3.5M
$3.9M
2009
settled
$2.6M
$3.6M
2010
settled
$3.7M
$4.3M
2011
settled
$4.5M
$4.5M
2012
reopened
$2.3M
$5.4M
2013
settled
$3.0M
$5.2M
2014
settled
$5.7M
$7.1M
2015
settled
$5.3M
$6.7M
2016
settled
$5.3M
$6.7M
2017
settled
$5.3M
$6.6M
2018
settled
$3.2M
$4.7M
2019
settled
$3.3M
$4.4M
2020
reopened
$5.0M
$6.0M
2021
settled
$6.2M
$7.0M
2022
settled
$7.5M
$5.4M
2023
settled
$5.9M
$5.7M
2024
as submitted
$4.8M
$5.9M
2025
as submitted
$7.2M
$6.9M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Palacios Community Medical Center17$7,228,953$6,915,4764.3%
Ballinger Memorial Hospital, Ballinger16$33,196,645$30,293,9848.7%
Cochran Memorial Hospital, Morton18$1,847,157$7,585,544−310.7%
Martin County Hospital District, Stanton18$28,401,353$42,691,658−50.3%
Muenster Memorial Hospital, Muenster18$10,300,455$13,962,643−35.5%
Plains Memorial Hospital, Dimmitt17$13,801,913$21,723,609−57.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
29
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
921
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
2.5
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
14.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
36.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: MID COAST (100%), home office.

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 451332. 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 24, 2026.