Long-Term Care Hospital

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center

Houston, TX

1300 Binz Street, Houston, TX 770047132851000

Beds

Inpatient discharges a year

$6.1M

Net patient revenue a year

About this hospital

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center is a 44-bed hospital in Houston, TX.

CCN: 452046
NPI: 1083143747
County: Harris County
Metro area: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX MSA
Medicare contractor: Jurisdiction H, Novitas Solutions (04011)
In Medicare since: 1995
Last CMS survey: 2019

Negotiated Rates

The data below comes from CMS-mandated price transparency data. Learn more.

Book a call about hospital compliance MRFs

No contract information available for this hospital.

Contract data may be available through direct hospital inquiry.

Insurance Accepted

Acceptance varies by plan and service. Confirm coverage with your insurer or the hospital's billing department.

More about this hospital

Doctors and services
Accredited by The Joint Commission
- 23 services
- 7 affiliated clinicians
See doctors and services
Finances
$6.1M net patient revenue
- Operating margin on patient care -13.0%
- -$766,568 net income
See finances
Ownership and leadership
Owned by Amg 5.0, LLC
- Private (for profit)
- August J Rantz, chief executive
See ownership and leadership

Tax IDs and NPIs insurers list

The employer identification numbers (EINs) health plans and networks list for Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center in the in-network rate files they publish, with the organization NPIs billed under each.

Tax ID (EIN)	Plans and networks listing it	Organization NPIs
82-1629253Plaza Specialty Hospital	48Aetna, Cigna, United Healthcare (incl Optum, Rocky Mountain, Health Plan of Nevada, Sierra Health), Ambetter, Aspirus Health Plan and 43 more	1083143747 Plaza Specialty Hospital LLC1659761815 Chg Hospital Medical Center LLC

Source: PayerPrice analysis of insurers' Transparency in Coverage in-network files. An EIN can cover several hospitals and clinics in a health system, and insurers sometimes list other organizations' NPIs under it.

Location

1300 Binz Street, Houston, TX 77004

7132851000

Get directions

Accreditation and services

The Joint Commission (since 2025)
Accreditation
None
Medical school affiliation
Private (for profit)
Ownership type
65
Medicare-certified beds
51
Registered nurses (full-time equivalent)
1995
In Medicare since

23 services at Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center

Intensive care: Surgical ICU (Medical Surgical Intensive Care Unit)
Heart: Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Surgery: AnesthesiaInpatient SurgicalOphthalmic SurgeryOR (Operating Room)Postoperative Recovery Room
Imaging: CT ScanDiagnostic RadiologyMRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)Nuclear MedicinePET Scan (Positron Emissions Tomography Scan)Therapeutic Radiology
Cancer: Chemotherapy
Transplant and dialysis: Acute Renal Dialysis
Women and children: Clinical Laboratory
Rehabilitation and therapy: CARF Inpatient Rehabilitation (Commission On Accreditation Of Rehabilitation Facilities Inpatient Rehabilitation)PT (Physical Therapy)Respiratory CareSpeech Pathology
Other services: Dietary CarePharmacySocial Care

Source: CMS Provider of Services file, as reported by the hospital and state surveyors.

Size and patient volume

What Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported to Medicare in its latest cost report, covering Aug 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025.

88
Inpatient discharges
Medicare 22%, Medicaid n/a
3,020
Inpatient days
45% of available bed days used
48
Employees (full-time equivalent)

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS) (report 839877). Figures cover the reporting period, which is not always 12 months, and are self-reported.

Utilization by payer and unit

Inpatient days and discharges Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported by payer. Medicare and Medicaid include their managed care plans, shown separately below.

	Medicare	Medicaid	Other	Total
Inpatient days	588	0	2,432	3,020
Discharges	19	0	69	88
Average length of stay	30.9 days		35.2 days	34.3 days
Average daily census	3.8	0.0	15.9	19.7

570
Medicare Advantage days
15 discharges

Beds and days by unit

Unit	Beds	Inpatient days	Medicare days	Occupancy
Adults & pediatrics	44	3,020	588	45%

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements. Worksheet S-3 Part I.

Staff and facilities

Staff by profession and the rooms and units Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported at its latest Medicare certification survey (2019). Counts are people, not full-time equivalents.

51
Registered nurses
9
Licensed practical nurses
10
Pharmacists
26
Respiratory therapists
4
Physical therapists
12
Occupational therapists
1
Speech pathologists and audiologists
48
Other personnel

Source: CMS Provider of Services file.

Doctors and clinicians

7 clinicians who bill Medicare list Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center as a hospital affiliation. Book a demo to see the commercial rates insurers publish for them, or start a free trial.

Emergency Medicine Physician 2
Internal Medicine Physician 2
Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician 1
Hospitalist Physician 1
Pulmonary Disease Physician 1

Kaveh Samani, MD
Internal Medicine Physician
NPI 1720118458
See commercial rates for Kaveh Samani, MD
Qing Liu
Internal Medicine Physician
NPI 1295178507
See commercial rates for Qing Liu
Rajesh Rethnam, MD., FCCP.
Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician
NPI 1275634289
See commercial rates for Rajesh Rethnam, MD., FCCP.
Imoigele Aisiku, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician
NPI 1326019068
See commercial rates for Imoigele Aisiku, MD
Basil Khalaf, M.D.
Emergency Medicine Physician
NPI 1285924142
See commercial rates for Basil Khalaf, M.D.
Bradley Roche, MD
Hospitalist Physician
NPI 1578023636
See commercial rates for Bradley Roche, MD
Thinh Vo, MD
Pulmonary Disease Physician
NPI 1043251044
See commercial rates for Thinh Vo, MD

Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians facility affiliations, released 2026-10-15, with names and specialties from NPPES. Affiliation means the clinician bills Medicare for care at this hospital; it is not employment.

Income statement

Revenue, expenses and income Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported to Medicare for Aug 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025. Percentages are of net patient revenue.

Line	Amount	Share
Gross patient revenue (charges)	$18M	293.0%
Inpatient	$17.9M	291.3%
Outpatient	$102,752	1.7%
Contractual allowances and discounts	-$11.8M	-193.0%
Net patient revenue	$6.1M	100.0%
Operating expenses	-$6.9M	-113.0%
Operating income from patient care	-$797,927	-13.0%
Other income	$31,359	0.5%
Investment income	$3,214	0.1%
Other	$28,145	0.5%
Net income	-$766,568	-12.5%

Gross revenue by payer

Line	Amount	Share
Traditional Medicare	$2.1M	12.0%
Other payers and self-pay	$15.7M	88.0%
Total charges	$17.9M	100.0%

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements. Traditional Medicare is the program charges on Worksheets D-3 and D Part V; Medicaid is from Worksheet S-10.

Financial ratios

Computed from Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center's latest cost report, which covers 153 days; income and expense figures are scaled to a year.

-13.0%
Operating margin
Operating income from patient care / net patient revenue
-12.4%
Total margin
Net income / net patient revenue plus other income
0.5%
EBITDAR margin
Net income before interest, depreciation and leases (Worksheet A-7), / total revenue
44% of expenses
Personnel costs
Salaries, direct-care contract labor and core wage-related costs / operating expenses
-10.5%
Return on assets
Net income for a year / total assets
0.42
Current ratio
Current assets / current liabilities
-0.19
Quick ratio
Cash, temporary investments and net receivables / current liabilities
-172 days
Days cash on hand
Cash and temporary investments / daily operating expenses excluding depreciation
32 days
Days in patient receivables
Net patient receivables / daily net patient revenue
764 days
Average payment period
Current liabilities / daily operating expenses excluding depreciation
0.84
Asset turnover
Total revenue for a year / total assets
66.0 years
Average age of plant
Accumulated depreciation / depreciation for a year

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements.

Balance sheet

What Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center owned and owed at the end of its reporting period (Dec 2025), across all fund types: $17.4M in total assets and a -$18.5M fund balance.

Show the balance sheet

Line	Amount	Of total assets
Cash and temporary investments	-$7.8M	-44.7%
Patient receivables, net	$1.3M	7.4%
Inventory	$314,096	1.8%
Total current assets	$14.4M	82.5%
Property and equipment, net of depreciation	$3M	17.5%
Total assets	$17.4M	100.0%
Current liabilities	$34.5M	197.8%
Total liabilities	$35.9M	206.2%
Fund balance (net assets)	-$18.5M	-106.2%

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements.

Financial trend

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center's full-year cost reports, by fiscal year end. Reports shorter than ten months are left out.

Show 6 years

Fiscal year ending	Jul 2020	Jul 2021	Jul 2022	Jul 2023	Jul 2024	Jul 2025
Net patient revenue	$19.4M	$27.3M	$31.9M	$21.2M	$15.7M	$17.2M
Operating expenses	$21M	$26.4M	$29.1M	$21.8M	$20.1M	$19.9M
Operating margin	-8.3%	3.2%	8.9%	-2.9%	-28.5%	-15.8%
Net income	-$1.5M	$1.4M	$3.4M	-$174,550	-$4.5M	-$2.7M
Total assets	$3.4M	$4M	$7.9M	$9M	$8.6M	$12.2M
Discharges	336	420	435	263	296	245
Inpatient days	11,682	15,143	12,514	7,579	9,364	8,816
Medicare Advantage days	1,727	3,717	2,715	1,580	405	1,071
Beds	65	44	39	39	44	44
Employees (FTE)	177	137	104	71	129	125

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements.

Departments

Each cost center Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reports, largest first. Total cost includes its share of overhead; the cost-to-charge ratio is total cost / charges.

Show all 23 departments

Ancillary and outpatient departments

Department	Salaries	Total cost	Charges	Cost-to-charge	Square feet
Drugs charged to patients	$155,415	$1.2M	$4.3M	0.27	805
Respiratory therapy	$308,822	$733,213	$2.6M	0.28
Renal dialysis		$210,426	$418,038	0.50
Physical therapy	$52,417	$172,036	$228,695	0.75	1,237
Radiology-diagnostic		$152,171	$117,930	1.29
Laboratory		$126,365	$2.7M	0.05
Speech pathology	$25,330	$57,382	$93,460	0.61
Occupational therapy	$12,869	$29,166	$77,504	0.38
Medical supplies charged to patient		$111	$20,978	0.01
Operating room		$7	$1,237	0.01

Inpatient units

Department	Salaries	Total cost	Charges	Cost-to-charge	Square feet
Adults & pediatrics	$1.5M	$5.2M	$7.3M	0.71	24,912
Intensive care unit		$364,733			8,402

Overhead (general service) departments

Department	Salaries	Direct cost	Square feet
Administrative & general	$420,213	$2.9M	2,288
Cap rel costs-bldg & fixt		$699,754	38,340
Nursing administration	$482,668	$482,668	166
Dietary		$393,135
Employee benefits department	$11,858	$367,216	130
Central services & supply	$28,002	$221,471
Housekeeping		$194,641
Cap rel costs-mvble equip		$96,397
Medical records & library	$25,975	$45,725	400
Operation of plant		$43,465
Laundry & linen service		$15,389

Source: CMS cost report (HCRIS, Form 2552-10), report 839877, as submitted. Hospitals report these figures themselves; they are not audited financial statements. Worksheets A, B-1, C Part I and S-3 Part II.

Frequently asked questions

About Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center's rates and hospital price transparency.

How many patients does Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center admit?

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported 88 inpatient discharges and 3,020 inpatient days from Aug 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025.

How many employees does Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center have?

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported 48 full-time-equivalent employees on payroll from Aug 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025.

How much revenue does Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center make?

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reported $6.1M in net patient revenue on $18M of gross charges for Aug 1, 2025 to Dec 31, 2025, an operating margin of -13.0%, and net income of -$766,568.

Who is the CEO of Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center?

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center's Medicare enrollment lists August J Rantz as President since 2026.

What is Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center's tax ID (EIN)?

Insurers' price transparency files list Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center under employer identification number 82-1629253 (Plaza Specialty Hospital). 48 health plans and networks list 82-1629253 for it.

How many doctors are affiliated with Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center?

7 clinicians who bill Medicare list Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center as a hospital affiliation in CMS's Doctors and Clinicians data. The largest groups are emergency medicine physician (2), internal medicine physician (2), critical care medicine (internal medicine) physician (1).

Is Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center accredited?

Yes. CMS's Provider of Services file lists The Joint Commission as the accrediting organization for Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center, effective 2025.

Who owns Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center?

In its Medicare enrollment, Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center reports Amg 5.0, LLC as 5% or greater direct ownership interest (100%).

What services does Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center offer?

CMS lists 23 services at Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center, including Acute Renal Dialysis, Anesthesia, Cardiac Catheterization Lab, CARF Inpatient Rehabilitation (Commission On Accreditation Of Rehabilitation Facilities Inpatient Rehabilitation), Chemotherapy, Clinical Laboratory.

How many beds does Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center have?

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center has 44 beds, including its psychiatric, rehabilitation and other subprovider units, in its latest Medicare cost report. 65 are Medicare-certified beds in CMS's Provider of Services file. Facility type: Long-Term Care Hospital.

For hospital finance and compliance teams

Running price transparency at a hospital like this one?

The data on this page comes from the files hospitals and payers publish. We help hospitals publish theirs correctly, and take a fresh look at their chargemaster.

Compliance MRF

Publish a CMS-compliant machine-readable file

We turn your chargemaster and payer contracts into the CMS template file, then keep it current as rates change.

CMS v3 example: standard_charge_information[0]

{
  "description": "MRI of brain (no contrast)",
  "code_information": [
    { "code": "611", "type": "RC" },
    { "code": "70551", "type": "CPT" }
  ],
  "standard_charges": [{
    "setting": "outpatient",
    "minimum": 250,
    "maximum": 400,
    "gross_charge": 1200,
    "discounted_cash": 1080,
    "payers_information": [
      {
        "payer_name": "Platform Health Insurance",
        "plan_name": "PPO",
        "methodology": "fee schedule",
        "standard_charge_dollar": 400
      },
      {
        "payer_name": "Region Health Insurance",
        "plan_name": "HMO",
        "methodology": "fee schedule",
        "standard_charge_dollar": 250
      }
    ]
  }]
}

CMS template layout, in JSON or CSV
Gross, discounted cash, payer-specific and de-identified min / max charges
cms-hpt.txt file and homepage footer link
Refreshed when your contracts change

Talk to us about your MRF

Chargemaster analysis

Get your chargemaster right for billing and payer contracts

Your chargemaster sets the gross charge on every claim, and many payer contracts base payment on it through percent-of-charge, lesser-of and stop-loss terms. We audit it line by line and show how your charges and negotiated rates compare with peer hospitals before your next negotiation.

What a review covers

CodingPricingPayer contractsCompliance

CPT, HCPCS, revenue code and modifier errors flagged line by line
Missing, duplicate and outdated charge lines identified
Charges set below payer allowables caught before lesser-of clauses cut payment
Revenue impact of charge changes modeled across percent-of-charge and stop-loss terms
Your negotiated rates benchmarked against peer hospitals for the same payers

Talk to us about your chargemaster

Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center

About this hospital

Negotiated Rates

Insurance Accepted

More about this hospital

Tax IDs and NPIs insurers list

Location

Accreditation and services

23 services at Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center

Size and patient volume

Utilization by payer and unit

Beds and days by unit

Staff and facilities

Doctors and clinicians

Income statement

Gross revenue by payer

Financial ratios

Balance sheet

Financial trend

Departments

Ancillary and outpatient departments

Inpatient units

Overhead (general service) departments

Ownership

Changes of ownership

Leadership

Officers and directors on the Medicare enrollment

Frequently asked questions

Running price transparency at a hospital like this one?

Publish a CMS-compliant machine-readable file

Get your chargemaster right for billing and payer contracts

About this hospital

Negotiated Rates

Insurance Accepted

More about this hospital

Tax IDs and NPIs insurers list

Location

Accreditation and services

23 services at Cornerstone Specialty Hospitals Houston Medical Center

Size and patient volume

Utilization by payer and unit

Beds and days by unit

Staff and facilities

Doctors and clinicians

Income statement

Gross revenue by payer

Financial ratios

Balance sheet

Financial trend

Departments

Ancillary and outpatient departments

Inpatient units

Overhead (general service) departments

Ownership

Changes of ownership

Leadership

Officers and directors on the Medicare enrollment

Nearby hospitals

Frequently asked questions

Running price transparency at a hospital like this one?

Publish a CMS-compliant machine-readable file

Get your chargemaster right for billing and payer contracts