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Short-term acute care hospital · Welch, West Virginia · 49 beds · CMS certification number 510086

Welch Community Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS December 3, 2025. 29 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$13.3M
$13,285,064 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$37.2M
$37,230,114 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$23.9M
−$23,945,050 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−180.2%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $14.0M in its first year on file (1997) to $13.3M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$15.7M (2023), −$26.2M (2024), −$23.9M (2025).
  • 3 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2025.
  • Medicaid paid for 5.4% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 25.9%.

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
$14.0M
$17.5M
1998
settled with audit
$15.2M
$16.8M
1999
reopened
$18.1M
$17.8M
2000
settled
$15.7M
$18.3M
2001
reopened
$11.8M
$19.5M
2002
settled
$14.9M
$21.1M
2003
settled
$17.6M
$20.7M
2004
settled
$18.1M
$21.3M
2005
settled
$18.8M
$21.4M
2006
settled
$18.0M
$22.3M
2007
reopened
$17.5M
$21.8M
2008
reopened
$10.1M
$23.3M
2009
reopened
$18.6M
$24.9M
2010
reopened
$19.6M
$26.9M
2011
reopened
$19.1M
$26.9M
2012
reopened
$21.6M
$28.2M
2013
reopened
$20.0M
$27.5M
2014
reopened
$20.7M
$27.4M
2015
settled
$22.0M
$27.1M
2016
settled
$12.9M
$27.6M
2017
settled
$15.1M
$26.6M
2018
settled
$16.8M
$26.2M
2019
settled
$14.2M
$29.0M
2020
settled
$14.4M
$26.5M
2021
settled
$8.9M
$31.6M
2022
settled
$21.7M
$35.1M
2023
settled
$19.7M
$35.4M
2024
as submitted
$10.7M
$36.8M
2025
as submitted
$13.3M
$37.2M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (short-term acute care hospital), nearest in size, from West Virginia first; each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Welch Community Hospital49$13,285,064$37,230,114−180.2%
Beckley Arh Hospital, Beckley57$110,530,052$142,804,691−29.2%
Camc Charleston Surgical Hospital, Charleton28$35,225,917$28,720,24718.5%
Rivers Health, Point Pleasant43$43,759,657$72,833,719−66.4%
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital Company, Weston49$51,196,872$66,645,951−30.2%
Wetzel County Hospital, New Martinsville25$45,481,749$45,284,4020.4%

Patients and payers

Discharges
336
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
1,419
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
3.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
7.9%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
25.9%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
5.4%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: ST OF WV - PEIA, govt health ins; ST OF WV - ADM, govt admin.

Type of control on its cost report: governmental, state.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2024.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 510086. 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 3, 2025.