As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

AVERA MERRILL PIONEER HOSPITAL

CMS id: 161321
1100 S 10TH AVE, ROCK RAPIDS IA 51246. County: LYON
System: AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL
CBSA: Rural Iowa

The 11-bed, CAH hospital had $-1,128,928 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 4.65553% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.61% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $79,125 in Medicaid shortfall.

* For more about Net Service to Patients and operating revenue, please the finance section below.

Note: Medians are from CAH hospitals with "complete" fiscal years. For more about how we calculated medians and cost reports in general, please click here.

Details

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
# of days in fyear	365	365	120	366	365
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	14 23	14 23	14 23	11 23	11 23
Total beds Median	14 25	14 25	14 25	11 25	11 25
FTEs Median	65.71 149.18	64.19 151.6	58.61 151.58	54.27 152.78	54.21 151.99

Finances As they appear in worksheet G3 of the cost reports.

Note: Net Patient Revenue is considered operating revenue, which means Net Service to Patients is considered operating profit. Click here for more about cost report financials

Hospital cost reports are an enormously complicated dataset. There are whole organizations and an offical CMS vendor dedicated to helping researchers work with the data.
It's important to understand that hospital financials in cost reports are not organized in the same as other sources such as annual financial reports to bond holders.

The biggest difference is the concept of operating revenue and profit. Net Service to patients (NS2P), which is the sum of net patient revenue minus operating expenses, is considered the equivalent of operating profit according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). See the last paragraph of "Primary Data Sources" on page 55 of Annual Analysis of Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments to States (PDF).

That would make Net Patient Revenue = operating revenue.

All this makes things challenging when comparing what's reported in cost reports to other sources. It becomes clearer when you consider that, beyond the purpose of reimbursement, cost reports are a tool for policymakers trying to understand the financial situation of a hospital doing the tasks specific to hospitals.

In other words, while a facility with a division that formulates drugs might include earnings from that as operating revenue in their corporate annual result, this is not central to the operations of a hospital caring for patients and so it is counted as "other income." (See below the financials section for more on "other income")

The healthcare consulting firm HMP, in a former partnership with Modern Healthcare, did develop a formula for estimating operating revenue closer to what one might find in other sources. We no longer use this for the following reasons:

The measure was not widely used beyond HMP and Modern Healthcare. Many hospitals had their own internal estimates of operating revenue and profit.
Because of this, there was confusion when reporting operating results for individual hospitals. There was often pushback when a facility's internal numbers did not match what Modern Healthcare was reporting.
The formula includes revenue from portions of the "other income" section, which may also include non-operating revenue. HMP themselves point out in a caveat on their site that they cannot exclude all non-operating revenue from their measure.

HMP's operating measure has proven problematic in the past for our reporting and the partnership with them ended years ago. It's best to not use a measure that we alone cannot defend.

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Net patient revenue ? Median	9,271,654 19,395,819	9,479,741 19,790,685	2,912,458 20,891,573	6,384,321 20,752,910	8,186,477 22,925,976
Operating expenses Median	8,998,708 21,082,256	9,271,607 21,740,728	2,977,747 22,449,917	8,531,060 23,028,561	9,315,405 24,906,213
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	272,946 -1,166,928	208,134 -1,178,891	-65,289 -1,189,234	-2,146,739 -1,989,193	-1,128,928 -1,175,562
NS2P margin ? Median	2.94% -6.37	2.20% -6.47	-2.24% -6.58	-33.63% -10.52	-13.79% -5.81

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for AVERA MERRILL PIONEER HOSPITAL compared to all** CAH hospitals, from CMS cost reports.
Note: NS2P is considered operating margin by MACPAC. The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.

* Data range does not show outliers, which fall beyond the minimum and maximum of the range.
** From cost reports with complete fiscal years. Number of CAH hospitals available to calculate medians:

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
1,314	1,322	1,316	1,319	1,132

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Other income* Median Click here to show/hide details	297,119 1,517,926	278,254 1,554,100	148,113 1,708,825	1,383,625 3,606,354	1,583,786 4,946,640
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	12,000 68,435	0 61,711.5	0 71,344	0 80,654	0 103,902
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	31 25,389	38 35,427	4,902 59,240	0 47,652	0 52,317
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	60	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	13,814	11,404	2,801	58,986	40,712
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	1,407	1,345	293	0	0
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	1,296	960	192	0	6,102
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	9,067 525,619.5	2,537 568,101.5	10 581,486	0 657,916	0 640,942
⊳ Sum Line 24	259,444	261,970	139,915	1,324,639	1,536,972
Total income ? Median	570,065 445,049	486,388 379,292	82,824 655,032	-763,114 1,453,054	454,858 3,734,026
Non-operating expenses Median	0 56,329	138 45,230	172 61,507	0 80,747	0 39,130
Net income Median	570,065 309,249	486,250 305,537	82,652 515,321.5	-763,114 1,282,423	454,858 3,678,491
Net margin Median	5.95756% 1.7%	4.98309% 1.61%	2.70054% 2.36%	-9.82388% 5.41%	4.65553% 13.38%

* About "Other income": Other income, or line 25 in worksheet G3, is the sum of lines 6 through 24. It includes three lines that are considered non-operating revenue - contributions, investments and government appropriations. Medians are included for these three lines. It also contains items that are not central to providing healthcare, such as revenue from parking or gift shops.
"Sum Line 24" is a special case. Called "Other (specify)" in the cost reports, CMS allows for this line to be "subscripted," or divided into sublines like 002400, 002401, 002402. And hospitals do that, up to 100 lines, to detail income (and sometimes negative returns) that are otherwise not covered in the previous "other" lines. Therefore, "Sum Line 24" is the sum of all the lines 24.

Range* of total profit (loss) margins

= Total margin for AVERA MERRILL PIONEER HOSPITAL compared to all** CAH hospitals, from CMS cost reports.
The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.

* Data range does not show outliers, which fall beyond the minimum and maximum of the range.
** From cost reports with complete fiscal years. Number of CAH hospitals available to calculate medians:

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
1,314	1,322	1,316	1,319	1,132

Medicare revenue

Inpatient and outpatient revenue

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
All inpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	789,851 1,512,374	954,905 1,478,094	233,768 1,365,460	623,439 1,289,169	1,054,253 1,354,214
"All inpatient revenue" is made up of any Medicare payments for routine inpatient, swingbed SNFs, TEFRA, IPF, IRF, inpatient long-term care, CAH and inpatient SNF facilities. Medians are only calculated when there are sufficient facilities reporting revenue.
⊳ Routine inpatient revenue ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Swingbeds ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act payments (TEFRA) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) ⊳ Median	0 1,435,730	0 1,483,001	0 1,283,328	0 992,950.5	0 --
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	789,851 1,441,589	954,905 1,403,245	233,768 1,290,206	623,439 1,229,191	1,054,253 1,287,699
⊳ Skilled-nursing facilities (SNF) ⊳ Median	0 206,041.5	0 214,490	0 174,030.5	0 236,717.5	0 192,758.5
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	2,754,100 4,108,627	2,737,266 4,367,646	868,999 4,566,928	1,786,423 4,517,324	2,281,761 4,554,272
"All outpatient revenue" is made up of any payments for routine outpatient, HHA, CMHC, rural health and other federally-qualified health clinics. Medians are only calculated when there are sufficient facilities reporting revenue.
⊳ Routine outpatient revenue ⊳ Median	1,919,820 3,508,078	1,860,214 3,742,383	632,205 3,932,686	1,606,575 3,847,302	2,124,973 3,879,271
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 299,331.5	0 299,936	0 316,639	0 288,635	0 297,926
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	834,280 702,405	877,052 746,179	236,794 800,433	179,848 774,040	156,788 742,054
⊳ Other federally qualified health clinics ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --

Other payments

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Graduate Medical Education (GME) Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
Outlier Median	0 4,679	0 5,256	0 5,165.5	0 6,341	0 5,998

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	120,021 553,475.5	190,235 567,149	110,834 599,174.5	400,709 641,417	79,125 631,057
Charity care Median	196,706 190,496	403,946 225,101	137,430 238,624	38,618 260,478.5	28,917 225,887
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	340,504 860,218.5	490,171 933,428	170,265 986,290	175,889 998,939	150,132 871,713
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.78% 3.77	5.29% 3.82	5.72% 3.7	2.06% 3.74	1.61% 3.04
Total shortfall/UCC Median	460,525 1,405,482	680,406 1,525,979	281,099 1,576,055	576,598 1,691,815	229,257 1,476,802

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	4,109,342 8,521,101	4,157,965 8,786,419	1,383,767 9,086,354	3,514,373 9,512,636	3,590,321 9,933,360
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	48.74 42.53	47.33 42.58	48.40 42.62	41.20 42.72	38.54 42.27
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
Contract hours, direct-care Median	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --
Contract wages, direct-care Median	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --	0.00 --

* in an approved program

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Cost reports are self-reported by the facility, are subject to revision and should be considered preliminary.

* Net Service to patients (NS2P) equals net patient revenue minus operating expenses. NS2P is considered the equivalent of operating profit according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). See the last paragraph of "Primary Data Sources" on page 55 of Annual Analysis of Disproportionate Share Hospital Allotments to States (PDF).

About medians

Medians are calculated from reports with "complete" fiscal years, or reports with fiscal years of at least 300 days and no more than 420 days.

In cases where there are fewer than 50 values reported, medians are not calculated. For childrens' hospitals, it's when fewer than 20 are reported.

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