Median operating margins and total net margins vs. median percentage of charity care and total community benefit, for critical-access and short-term hospitals from 2013-17 The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.
Notes
Median operating and total margins for each year are from more than 4,000 cost reports via Modern Healthcare Metrics.
Median charity care and total community benefit, as a percentage of total expenses for each year, are from an analysis of more than 2,000 Form 990s except for 2017* — only 253 forms were available.
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