Hospital · Short-term acute hospital
Who owns Boston Medical Center?
1 Boston Medical Center Place · Boston, MA · 02118
Overview
Beds492
Discharges22,898cost report 2024
Occupancy82%inpatient days ÷ bed days
Employees (FTE)7,756
Boston Medical Center is a short-term acute hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, operated by BMC Health. Suffolk County has 21 hospitals, 20 nursing homes and 25 urgent care centers.
Ownership
Boston Medical Center is operated by BMC Health.
- Operator
- BMC Health
- Owner group
- BMC Health
- Ownership type
- Private Nonprofit
- Source
- Company website · 2026
Ownership history
Every dated change of operator and owner for Boston Medical Center, with the source for each.
Full ownership tree of BMC Health
Every entity between this facility and its ultimate owner, with ownership percentages and dates.
Finances
From the hospital's Medicare cost report, fiscal year ending 2024.
| Net patient revenue | $1.53B |
| Operating expenses | $2.66B |
| Net income | −$51.6M |
| Net income as a share of net patient revenue | -3.4% |
| Uncompensated care cost | $124.0M |
| Charity care cost | $104.6M |
| Medicaid net revenue | $401.8M |
| Medicare disproportionate share percentage | 52.0% |
Payer mix by inpatient days (2024)
- Commercial and other 63.7%
- Medicaid 19.7%
- Medicare 16.6%
Services
Top inpatient services, Medicare (2024)
| Service | Discharges | Average total payment |
|---|---|---|
| Septicemia or severe sepsis without MV >96 hours with MCC · 871 | 160 | $36K |
| Heart failure and shock with MCC · 291 | 152 | $24K |
| Psychoses · 885 | 66 | $31K |
| Intracranial hemorrhage or cerebral infarction with MCC · 064 | 56 | $37K |
| Respiratory infections and inflammations with MCC · 177 | 48 | $30K |
Top outpatient services, Medicare (2024)
| Service | Services |
|---|---|
| Comprehensive Observation Services · 8011 | 928 |
| Level 2 Urology and Related Services · 5372 | 384 |
| Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage · 5072 | 201 |
| Level 1 Intraocular Procedures · 5491 | 183 |
| Level 4 ENT Procedures · 5164 | 151 |
Medicare fee-for-service only. Small counts are suppressed by CMS.
Location and market
- Address
- 1 Boston Medical Center Place · Boston, MA · 02118
- County
- Suffolk County
- State
- Massachusetts
Hospitals in the county21
Nursing homes20
Urgent care centers25
Nearby hospitals
| Name | City | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center | Boston | 0.3 mi |
| Tufts Medical Center | Boston | 1.2 mi |
| Boston Children's Hospital | Boston | 1.6 mi |
| Brigham And Women's Hospital | Boston | 1.6 mi |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center | Boston | 1.6 mi |
| New England Baptist Hospital | Boston | 1.7 mi |
Sources and identifiers
- Operator: Company website
- Finances and payer mix: CMS hospital cost reports (HCRIS), fiscal year 2024
- Services: CMS Medicare inpatient and outpatient utilization
- Ownership type and beds: CMS Provider of Services file
- Location: CMS and Census Bureau geography
- CMS certification number
- 220031
- NPI
- 1346218294
- Last confirmed
- 2026-10-23
See something wrong? Report a correction.