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Children's hospital · San Antonio, Texas · 174 beds · CMS certification number 453315

CHRISTUS Children's

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

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$501.5M
$501,543,083 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$465.0M
$465,045,609 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
$36.5M
$36,497,474 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
7.3%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $146.9M in its first year on file (2013) to $501.5M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$10.5M (2023), $2.3M (2024), $36.5M (2025).
  • All 5 children's hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a gain on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 6.1% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 0.1%.
  • CHRISTUS HEALTH holds 100% of it, on its Medicare enrollment.

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

Thirteen years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2013
reopened
$146.9M
$150.0M
2014
settled
$195.3M
$211.8M
2015
settled
$208.3M
$246.5M
2016
reopened
$194.4M
$260.0M
2017
reopened
$214.7M
$249.5M
2018
reopened
$229.1M
$251.9M
2019
reopened
$238.2M
$270.3M
2020
reopened
$251.5M
$269.5M
2021
reopened
$254.6M
$275.5M
2022
settled
$333.0M
$342.0M
2023
settled
$376.5M
$387.0M
2024
settled
$431.5M
$429.2M
2025
as submitted
$501.5M
$465.0M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (children's hospital), nearest in size, from Texas first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
CHRISTUS Children's174$501,543,083$465,045,6097.3%
Children's Medical Center Plano, Plano224$508,702,710$472,007,4097.2%
Covenant Children's Hospital, Lubbock184$477,255,093$386,909,18718.9%
Driscoll Children's Hospital Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg119$423,197,463$386,312,7328.7%
El Paso Children's Hospital, El Paso148$235,962,603$222,108,0255.9%
Healthbridge Children's Hospital - Houston, LTD., Houston111$67,198,064$60,789,8719.5%

Patients and payers

Discharges
7,466
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
43,272
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
118.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
68.1%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
0.1%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
6.1%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

  • CHRISTUS HEALTH100%

Related organizations on its own cost report: CHRISTUS HEALTH (100%).

Other hospitals with the same owner: CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital (LA), CHRISTUS Ochsner St. Patrick Hospital (LA), CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System (LA), CHRISTUS Ochsner Lake Area Hospital (LA), CHRISTUS Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital (LA), CHRISTUS Coushatta Health Care Center (LA), CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center (NM).

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 453315. 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 8, 2025.