1401 East Eight Street, Weslaco, TX, 78596 · (956) 968-8567
Beds
154
FY 2025
Star rating
5 of 5
Patient survey: 3 of 5
Net patient revenue
$131.8M
FY 2025
Net income
$19.4M
Patient care margin 11.3%
Discharges
6,373
Occupancy 50.6%
Clinicians
135
From the hospital's yearly cost reports (fiscal years as the hospital reports them)
Locations are shown at the center of the ZIP code.
US dollars as reported. Patient care margin = net patient revenue minus operating expenses, before other income such as grants, donations and investments.
| Fiscal year | Net patient revenue | Operating expenses | Patient care margin | Net income | Discharges | Uncompensated care | Medicare days | Medicaid days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $131.8M | $116.8M | 11.3% | $19.4M | 6,373 | $6.2M | 12.1% | 4.3% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 7.4% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 3.1% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 14.5% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 15.2% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 19.7% | US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 20.3% |
Medicare clinicians who list this hospital, by specialty
Inpatient stays by diagnosis related group (DRG), 2024
Official US government data: hospital records, ownership records, yearly cost reports and quality measures, linked by the hospital's CCN and NPI. Financials are for fiscal years as reported by the hospital.
Medicare clinicians who work here
| 2024 | $119.4M | $112.4M | 5.8% | $14.0M | 6,767 | $8.6M | 12.9% | 5.1% |
| 2023 | $109.1M | $100.9M | 7.5% | $13.6M | 5,856 | $6.7M | 14.9% | 5.7% |
| 2022 | $97.9M | $98.8M | -0.9% | $4.1M | 5,846 | $8.6M | 14.6% | 9.6% |
| 2021 | $95.7M | $101.9M | -6.4% | $1.9M | 5,145 | $11.3M | 18.6% | 7.1% |
| 2020 | $94.7M | $99.3M | -4.9% | $15.3M | 6,229 | $10.5M | 23.0% | 9.3% |
| US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate after hip or knee replacement | 5.6% | US median 5.8% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.4% | US median 17.2% |
| Complications after hip or knee replacement | 4.2% | US median 4.1% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 0.87 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.17 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Central line bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.47 | US median 0.48 |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 0.86 | US median 0.72 |
| MRSA bloodstream infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.60 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 · better |
| Doctors always communicated well | 74% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 71% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 3 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 49% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 63% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 80% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 63% | US median 71% |
| Patients who left the emergency department before being seen | 0% | US median 1% |
| Median time in the emergency department before leaving (minutes) | 133 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 5% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 69% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 79% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 58% | US median 74% |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 32 | $74,949.72 | $12,669.44 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 32 | $42,843.00 | $8,286.31 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 291 HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC | 31 | $44,211.03 | $10,519.23 | $10,022.34 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 22 | $297,941.82 | $39,372.05 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 432 CIRRHOSIS AND ALCOHOLIC HEPATITIS WITH MCC | 18 | $37,622.56 | $14,269.50 | $16,644.91 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 17 | $34,336.00 | $10,101.59 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 470 MAJOR HIP AND KNEE JOINT REPLACEMENT OR REATTACHMENT OF LOWER EXTREMITY WITHOUT MCC | 14 | $143,494.36 | $14,821.07 | $14,289.25 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 13 | $31,309.62 | $7,792.69 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 13 | $58,052.00 | $11,916.62 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 870 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITH MV >96 HOURS | 13 | $277,496.00 | $47,389.77 | $58,777.93 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 23 | 21 | $1,884.11 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 13 | 13 | $1,120.84 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5115 Level 5 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 13 | 13 | $9,773.88 | $10,771.69 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 12 | 12 | $2,203.57 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5091 Level 1 Breast/Lymphatic Surgery and Related Procedures | - | - | - | $2,930.15 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5113 Level 3 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $2,373.24 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5116 Level 6 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $15,762.73 |
| APC 5153 Level 3 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $1,264.08 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $2,832.62 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
| Company | Payments | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker Corporation SYK | 1 | $1,933 |
| Linde Gas & Equipment Inc. | 2 | $660 |
Official US government data on Original Medicare hospital stays and outpatient services; groups with fewer than 11 cases are not published. Payments are those drug and device companies must report.
Knapp Medical Center is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Weslaco, TX with 154 beds, part of Prime Healthcare and a 5-star overall rating.
Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, TX has 154 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 233 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 6,373 inpatients that year, with 50.6% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-12-31), Knapp Medical Center reported net patient revenue of $131.8M and operating expenses of $116.8M, a margin on patient care of 11.3%. After other income and expenses its net income was $19.4M (14.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Knapp Medical Center is part of Prime Healthcare, a health system with 47 hospitals based in Ontario, CA. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Knapp Medical Center has an overall rating of 5 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 3 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Knapp Medical Center provides emergency services.
135 Medicare clinicians list Knapp Medical Center as a hospital they work at, most often in Internal Medicine, Family Practice, Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology).
In 2024, Knapp Medical Center had 414 Medicare inpatient stays in 12 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 165 stays; Medicare paid $15,138.19 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2025, companies reported $2,593 in payments to Knapp Medical Center as a teaching hospital ($2,593 general and - for research) from 2 companies.