1990 Holton Avenue East, Big Stone Gap, VA, 24219 · (276) 523-3111
Beds
49
FY 2025
Star rating
4 of 5
Patient survey: 4 of 5
Net patient revenue
$183.6M
FY 2025
Net income
$29.7M
Patient care margin 10.6%
Discharges
3,290
Occupancy 66.2%
Clinicians
269
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 | $183.6M | $164.1M | 10.6% | $29.7M | 3,290 | $2.4M | 19.1% | 7.4% |
Official hospital quality measures with the national median across hospitals. For ratios, 1.00 means as many cases as expected.
| Death rate for COPD patients | 9.3% | US median 8.5% |
| Death rate for heart failure patients | 12.7% | US median 11% |
| Hospital-wide death rate within 30 days | 4.4% | US median 3.9% |
| Death rate for pneumonia patients | 17.4% | US median 15.2% |
| Death rate for stroke patients | 14% | US median 11.6% |
| Readmission rate for COPD | 20.5% |
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 | $177.4M | $146.7M | 17.3% | $49.2M | 3,249 | $2.1M | 20.9% | 6.3% |
| 2023 | $175.6M | $145.5M | 17.2% | $34.4M | 3,577 | $1.7M | 23.2% | 6.0% |
| 2022 | $175.8M | $145.9M | 17.0% | $39.0M | 3,601 | $2.0M | 25.6% | 4.5% |
| 2021 | $118.2M | $109.0M | 7.7% | $25.0M | 1,692 | $1.7M | 29.2% | 3.5% |
| 2020 | $87.0M | $79.0M | 9.2% | $21.4M | 989 | $2.2M | 25.3% | 12.9% |
| US median 19.8% |
| Readmission rate after a heart attack | 14.8% | US median 14.4% |
| Readmission rate for heart failure | 22.5% | US median 21.3% |
| Readmission rate for pneumonia | 17.6% | US median 17.2% |
| Serious complications (patient safety composite) | 1.10 | US median 0.96 |
| C. diff intestinal infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.28 · better |
| Surgical site infections after colon surgery (ratio to expected) | 1.83 | US median 0.72 |
| Catheter urinary tract infections (ratio to expected) | 0.00 | US median 0.40 |
| Doctors always communicated well | 82% | US median 79% |
| Nurses always communicated well | 85% | US median 80% |
| Patient survey summary star rating | 4 of 5 | US median 3 of 5 |
| Area around the room always quiet at night | 61% | US median 59% |
| Patients who rated the hospital 9 or 10 out of 10 | 73% | US median 72% |
| Room and bathroom always clean | 75% | US median 73% |
| Patients who would definitely recommend the hospital | 66% | 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) | 131 min | US median 148 min |
| Patients prescribed 2 or more opioids or opioids with benzodiazepines at discharge | 12% | US median 15% |
| Patients who got appropriate care for severe sepsis and septic shock | 68% | US median 65% |
| Healthcare workers given the flu vaccine | 94% | US median 79% |
| Stroke patients who got a brain scan within 45 minutes of arrival | 47% | US median 74% |
| 33 |
| $36,374.79 |
| $10,268.15 |
| $9,867.73 |
| DRG 689 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC | 22 | $26,135.64 | $9,153.32 | $8,838.11 |
| DRG 177 RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS AND INFLAMMATIONS WITH MCC | 20 | $33,033.90 | $13,498.30 | $12,667.88 |
| DRG 690 KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITHOUT MCC | 20 | $22,223.20 | $6,697.70 | $5,985.69 |
| DRG 872 SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITHOUT MCC | 19 | $26,125.95 | $7,618.74 | $7,681.44 |
| DRG 641 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITHOUT MCC | 17 | $17,169.82 | $6,190.65 | $5,829.71 |
| DRG 190 CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE WITH MCC | 14 | $28,274.86 | $6,385.21 | $8,466.56 |
| DRG 683 RENAL FAILURE WITH CC | 14 | $19,350.93 | $7,701.21 | $6,629.69 |
| DRG 698 OTHER KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT DIAGNOSES WITH MCC | 14 | $34,093.07 | $13,863.93 | $13,076.55 |
| DRG 280 ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION, DISCHARGED ALIVE WITH MCC | 11 | $28,836.00 | $13,292.64 | $12,400.10 |
| DRG 853 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES WITH O.R. PROCEDURES WITH MCC | 11 | $86,597.55 | $34,229.36 | $40,556.82 |
| DRG 194 SIMPLE PNEUMONIA AND PLEURISY WITH CC | 11 | $21,399.09 | $6,744.91 | $5,880.23 |
| DRG 640 MISCELLANEOUS DISORDERS OF NUTRITION, METABOLISM, FLUIDS AND ELECTROLYTES WITH MCC | 11 | $38,859.91 | $10,129.00 | $10,642.23 |
Hospital outpatient services by payment group (APC), 2024
| Service group | Services | Patients | Medicare pays per service | All hospitals |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| APC 5431 Level 1 Nerve Procedures | 123 | 68 | $1,381.52 | $1,406.61 |
| APC 8011 Comprehensive Observation Services | 106 | 99 | $1,976.02 | $2,090.36 |
| APC 5183 Level 3 Vascular Procedures | 17 | 17 | $2,337.19 | $2,405.01 |
| APC 5341 Level 1 Abdominal/Peritoneal/Biliary and Related Procedures | 14 | 12 | $2,534.71 | $2,635.67 |
| APC 5072 Level 2 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | 13 | 13 | $1,097.47 | $1,219.56 |
| APC 5112 Level 2 Musculoskeletal Procedures | 12 | 12 | $1,177.77 | $1,196.16 |
| APC 5114 Level 4 Musculoskeletal Procedures | - | - | - | $5,338.75 |
| APC 5153 Level 3 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $1,264.08 |
| APC 5154 Level 4 Airway Endoscopy | - | - | - | $2,832.62 |
| APC 5073 Level 3 Excision/ Biopsy/ Incision and Drainage | - | - | - | $2,141.49 |
| APC 5302 Level 2 Upper GI Procedures | - | - | - | $1,444.50 |
| APC 5313 Level 3 Lower GI Procedures | - | - | - | $2,176.09 |
Reported payments to this teaching hospital
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.
Lonesome Pine Hospital is a nonprofit short-term acute care hospital in Big Stone Gap, VA with 49 beds, part of Ballad Health and a 4-star overall rating.
Lonesome Pine Hospital in Big Stone Gap, VA has 49 beds (fiscal year 2025 cost report); 178 beds are certified for Medicare. It discharged 3,290 inpatients that year, with 66.2% of its beds in use on average.
In fiscal year 2025 (ending 2025-06-30), Lonesome Pine Hospital reported net patient revenue of $183.6M and operating expenses of $164.1M, a margin on patient care of 10.6%. After other income and expenses its net income was $29.7M (15.3% of revenue), so it made a profit that year.
Lonesome Pine Hospital is part of Ballad Health, a health system with 16 hospitals based in Johnson City, TN. It is a nonprofit hospital.
Lonesome Pine Hospital has an overall rating of 4 out of 5 stars in the official hospital quality ratings. Patients rate it 4 out of 5 stars in the patient survey.
Yes, Lonesome Pine Hospital provides emergency services.
269 Medicare clinicians list Lonesome Pine Hospital as a hospital they work at, most often in Nurse Practitioner, Family Practice, Internal Medicine.
In 2024, Lonesome Pine Hospital had 389 Medicare inpatient stays in 15 diagnosis groups. The most common was DRG 871 (septicemia or severe sepsis without mv >96 hours with mcc) with 136 stays; Medicare paid $14,757.58 per stay on average, compared with $15,524.21 across all hospitals.
In 2023, companies reported $753 in payments to Lonesome Pine Hospital as a teaching hospital ($753 general and - for research) from 3 companies.