Financial anchor year: FY25. Margin and revenue are as filed for FY25. Balance-sheet measures (current ratio, equity financing, days in A/R) use FY24, the latest filing whose balance sheet reconciled as filed. Every tile below states its own fiscal year; nothing is carried forward or estimated.
The read
A hospital in Abbeville, SC. It ran an operating loss of 1.5% in FY25 on $55.9M of operating revenue. It held 71 days of cash on hand (41st percentile among Critical Access Hospitals on liquidity). Operating margin improved from -21.4% in FY20 to -1.5% in FY25.
Operating margin · FY25
-1.5%
▲ 15.3 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals47th pctl of 824 (FY25)
Days cash on hand · FY25
71d
all sources
▲ 13.7 days vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals41st pctl of 827 (FY25)
Total operating revenue · FY25
$55.9M
▲ 7.7 $M vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals75th pctl of 833 (FY25)
Total margin · incl. nonoperating · FY25
-1.5%
▲ 2.7 pts vs FY24
vs Critical Access Hospitals19th pctl of 824 (FY25)
One point of operating margin at ABBEVILLE AREA MEDICAL CENTER is about $559K per year (1% of FY25 total operating revenue).
Where ABBEVILLE AREA MEDICAL sits among Critical Access Hospitals
Operating margin · FY25 pool · n = 824 of 1,404 filed
Each point is one Critical Access Hospital in the national distribution for this provider type, placed by operating margin. Facilities are not matched on size, case mix, or market — that is the matched-peer comparison in the paid benchmark. The Critical Access Hospital median is -0.2%. Descriptive context only, not a ranking.
One critical access hospitalABBEVILLE AREACritical Access Hospital median
The money
$ thousands · HCRIS cost-report basis · as filed, QA-gated
Ratios tell you how this hospital is doing. Statements tell you what kind of organization it is, and where the money comes from. Every figure below traces to a public cost-report filing, shown as filed. A ratio renders only when every input is reported in the filing; a year missing its core lines is not shown; a year whose balance sheet does not reconcile is labeled. Not audited by Astrelis.
Net patient receivables ÷ (net patient revenue ÷ 365), same fiscal year
HCRIS WS G / G-3
Medicare inpatient contribution margin
+20.8% (FY25)
35th percentile of 476 CAHs. Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
Medicare outpatient contribution margin
+67.4% (FY25)
89th percentile of 476 CAHs. Full comparison in the CAH Performance Benchmark.
HCRIS cost report · CAH economics engine
$ in thousands
Line item
FY23
FY24
FY25
Patient revenue
41,364
44,774
55,927
Other operating revenue
5,578
3,440
—
Total operating revenue
46,943
48,214
55,927
Total operating expenses
52,754
56,306
56,754
Operating income
(5,811)
(8,092)
(826)
Operating margin %
-12.4%
-16.8%
-1.5%
Grants & contributions
264
270
—
Investment income
113
485
2
Other non-operating, net
1,267
5,081
2
Net income
(4,167)
(2,256)
(822)
Net income %
-8.6%
-4.2%
-1.5%
HCRIS Worksheet G-3 / S-3 · $ thousands · FY20–FY25 · where other operating income is not reported, total operating revenue reflects net patient revenue alone · FY20–21 may include COVID-era relief funding in nonoperating income
FY25 net patient A/R is not shown: gross A/R was not reported on the filing, making the derived net figure spurious (AR quality flag).
How it operates
quality & operational context · CMS public reporting
A 19-bed hospital at 28% occupancy where swing beds are 58% of the inpatient business and 91% of patient revenue is outpatient.
The metrics this hospital type is judged on: care quality, patient experience, and scale. Each is labeled by evidence class and public source; descriptive context only, never a ranking or adequacy claim.
Scale and flow
Occupancy
27.7%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average daily census
4.87
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Staffed beds (acute)
19
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Annual discharges
358
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Average length of stay
4.9d
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3
Swing-bed average daily census
6.73
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 L5–6
Swing-bed share of inpatient days
58.0%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS S-3 (acute + swing days)
Outpatient share of patient revenue
91.0%
Verified fact2025
HCRIS WS G-2 L28
Who it serves
Total unreimbursed & uncompensated care
$3.4M
Verified fact2023
HCRIS WS S-10 line 31
How the care measures up
C. difficile infection (SIR)
0
No Different than National Benchmark
CMS-reported measure07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025
CMS Care Compare
Hospital-wide unplanned readmission
15%
No Different Than the National Rate
CMS-reported measure07/01/2023 to 06/30/2024
CMS Care Compare
Pricing
Pilot · FY25
Commercial rates vs Medicare
355%
Commercial negotiated rates as a percent of Medicare rates, outpatient basket. 62nd percentile among CAHs.
Hospital price files + Medicare rates
Directional indicator from public price files. Facility-specific rate positioning is the Commercial Pricing Study →
Trajectory
Cost-report basis · 6 reporting years
Operating margin
Days cash on hand
The county this hospital serves
ABBEVILLE County, SC
Median household income
$52.1K
vs $82.1K US · $59.7K rural median
Poverty rate
14.1%
vs 12.5% US · 14.3% rural median
Uninsured
10.7%
vs 8.6% US · 8.4% rural median
Age 65+
22.6%
vs 16.8% US · 20.6% rural median
Fair or poor health
22.3%
self-reported, adults · CDC PLACES
Primary-care shortage
Designated
HRSA HPSA
Economic context: 12.8% of county personal income is Medicare/Medicaid medical benefits; 34.2% arrives as government transfers (BEA, 2022).
What this hospital means to Abbeville County
economic contribution · FY25 cost report
Direct annual spending
$56.8M
total operating expense · reported
Total economic output
$130.5M
× 2.30 output multiplier · estimate, upper bound for rural
Method: NCRHW 2016 study of critical access hospitals (IMPLAN Type II), employment × 1.34, earnings × 1.19; output × 2.30 (AHA national, upper bound for rural). Direct figures are reported values from the facility's HCRIS cost report; multiplied figures are estimates.
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