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Short-term acute care hospital · Prairie Du Sac, Wisconsin · 37 beds · CMS certification number 520095

Sauk Prairie Healthcare

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, as submitted, stamped by CMS June 3, 2026. 30 years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2025 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$136.8M
$136,834,959 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$143.9M
$143,867,235 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$7.0M
−$7,032,276 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−5.1%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $22.9M in its first year on file (1996) to $136.8M in 2025.
  • Its result from patient care: $626K (2023), −$3.3M (2024), −$7.0M (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 4.0% of its inpatient days and Medicare for 37.8%.

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
settled
$22.9M
$21.1M
1997
settled
$24.1M
$22.8M
1998
settled
$23.9M
$24.4M
1999
settled
$26.7M
$26.5M
2000
settled
$28.9M
$29.7M
2001
settled
$30.3M
$31.6M
2002
settled
$30.9M
$31.3M
2003
settled
$33.8M
$34.4M
2004
settled
$35.3M
$34.7M
2005
settled
$38.9M
$36.6M
2006
settled
$41.7M
$39.5M
2007
reopened
$43.6M
$41.3M
2008
settled
$47.4M
$45.1M
2009
settled
$54.1M
$51.4M
2010
settled
$57.3M
$53.1M
2011
settled
$56.6M
$54.2M
2012
settled
$61.2M
$59.2M
2013
settled
$65.2M
$66.5M
2014
settled
$73.0M
$77.2M
2015
settled
$79.6M
$84.0M
2016
settled
$80.1M
$85.0M
2017
settled
$85.3M
$89.5M
2018
settled
$89.5M
$91.6M
2019
settled
not filed
$93.3M
2020
settled with audit
$85.3M
$91.9M
2021
settled
$98.8M
$98.1M
2022
as submitted
$109.1M
$109.2M
2023
as submitted
$118.5M
$117.9M
2024
as submitted
$130.5M
$133.7M
2025
as submitted
$136.8M
$143.9M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Wisconsin with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2025.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Sauk Prairie Healthcare37$136,834,959$143,867,235−5.1%
Aspirus Rhinelander Hospital, Rhinelander42$245,381,098$324,541,166−32.3%
Aurora Medical Center Hartford, Hartford35$90,017,727$66,769,82425.8%
Howard Young Medical Center Inc of Woodruff Wisconsin, Woodruff42$39,045,914$41,337,740−5.9%
Mile Bluff Medical Center, Mauston40$101,225,519$121,917,360−20.4%
Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin, Glendale30$89,099,938$68,557,32123.1%

Patients and payers

Discharges
1,295
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
4,281
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
11.8
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
32.4%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
37.8%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8
Medicaid share of days
4.0%
S-3 cols 7 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: CMDI (3%).

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 520095. 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 3, 2026.