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Short-term acute care hospital · Milwaukee, Wisconsin · 73 beds · CMS certification number 520078

Ascension St. Francis Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS September 28, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below. Also on the 340B covered-entity register.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$106.2M
$106,240,766 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$134.8M
$134,776,266 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$28.5M
−$28,535,500 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−26.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $104.4M in its first year on file (1996) to $106.2M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: −$24.6M (2023), −$1.7M (2024), −$28.5M (2025).
  • 2 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 8.9% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 13.5%.

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

30 years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$104.4M
$105.1M
1997
reopened
$116.9M
$118.4M
1998
settled
$106.6M
$114.0M
1999
reopened
$98.6M
$109.3M
2000
settled
$104.4M
$110.7M
2001
settled
$62.9M
$61.0M
2002
reopened
$146.4M
$144.6M
2003
reopened
$155.2M
$154.5M
2004
settled
$171.5M
$173.8M
2005
settled
$161.0M
$162.9M
2006
reopened
$137.7M
$151.5M
2007
reopened
$153.6M
$119.0M
2008
settled
$156.0M
$124.6M
2009
reopened
$170.3M
$144.6M
2010
reopened
$157.4M
$125.5M
2011
reopened
$156.3M
$149.5M
2012
reopened
$163.7M
$156.1M
2013
reopened
$188.1M
$176.9M
2014
reopened
$189.2M
$177.3M
2015
reopened
$195.2M
$183.1M
2016
reopened
$195.2M
$193.6M
2017
reopened
$187.5M
$172.5M
2018
reopened
$171.2M
$134.8M
2019
reopened
$158.2M
$128.8M
2020
settled
$150.1M
$173.5M
2021
settled
$135.0M
$152.5M
2022
settled with audit
$121.7M
$151.7M
2023
settled
$115.0M
$139.6M
2024
as submitted
$113.3M
$115.0M
2025
as submitted
$106.2M
$134.8M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Wisconsin with 50 to 99 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Ascension St. Francis Hospital73$106,240,766$134,776,266−26.9%
Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital & Clinics, Stevens Point82$187,400,448$167,970,55410.4%
Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh, Oshkosh84$258,046,340$227,716,19311.8%
Froedtert West Bend Hospital, West Bend70$149,717,990$164,574,602−9.9%
St. Mary's Hospital, Green Bay72$144,435,945$147,508,276−2.1%
Watertown Medical Center, Watertown76$113,544,748$110,359,1162.8%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,986
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
9,053
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
24.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
34.0%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
13.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
8.9%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: ASCENSION WI (100%), home office; WF LAB, lab transfer; ASCENSION HEALT (100%), home office.

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

Community benefit, as filed

From IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, filed by ASCENSION ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL INC (employer identification number 390907740) 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)$21,237,249IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance at cost (line 7a)$4,444,819IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <FinancialAssistanceAtCostTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Medicaid (line 7b)$15,614,540IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <UnreimbursedMedicaidGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Financial assistance and means-tested government programs (line 7d)$20,059,359IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalFinancialAssistanceTyp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Other benefits (line 7j)$1,177,890IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalOtherBenefitsGrp><NetCommunityBenefitExpnsAmt>
Total, fraction of total expense (line 7k, column f)0.1356IRS Form 990 Schedule H, Part I, <TotalCommunityBenefitsGrp><TotalExpensePct>

E-file object id 202441319349305464. 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 520078. 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 September 28, 2026.