As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BIG SANDY MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 271311
166 MONTANA AVENUE, BIG SANDY MT 59520. County: JOHNSON
System: --
CBSA: Rural Montana

The 8-bed, CAH hospital had $-667,184 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 26.55213% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.51% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $142,124 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	365	366	365
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	8 23	8 23	8 23	8 23	8 23
Total beds Median	30 25	30 25	30 25	30 25	8 25
FTEs Median	41.34 149.18	40.90 151.6	42.62 151.58	38.78 152.78	41.59 151.99

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	3,846,112 19,395,819	2,275,012 19,790,685	2,866,366 20,891,573	2,559,362 20,752,910	4,162,271 22,925,976
Operating expenses Median	3,755,486 21,082,256	3,684,163 21,740,728	3,525,559 22,449,917	3,672,839 23,028,561	4,829,455 24,906,213
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	90,626 -1,166,928	-1,409,151 -1,178,891	-659,193 -1,189,234	-1,113,477 -1,989,193	-667,184 -1,175,562
NS2P margin ? Median	2.36% -6.37	-61.94% -6.47	-23.00% -6.58	-43.51% -10.52	-16.03% -5.81

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BIG SANDY MEDICAL CENTER 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	432,343 1,517,926	345,534 1,554,100	560,104 1,708,825	921,712 3,606,354	2,413,080 4,946,640
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	166,259 68,435	50,264 61,711.5	250,890 71,344	538,286 80,654	85,902 103,902
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	18,664 25,389	30,578 35,427	35,358 59,240	39,972 47,652	29,710 52,317
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	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	8,700	10,987	12,739	18,837	15,259
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	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	1,200	1,200	1,221	1,221	1,100
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	104,184 525,619.5	105,686 568,101.5	60,994 581,486	49,384 657,916	121,500 640,942
⊳ Sum Line 24	133,336	146,819	198,902	274,012	2,159,609
Total income ? Median	522,969 445,049	-1,063,617 379,292	-99,089 655,032	-191,765 1,453,054	1,745,896 3,734,026
Non-operating expenses Median	0 56,329	0 45,230	0 61,507	0 80,747	0 39,130
Net income Median	522,969 309,249	-1,063,617 305,537	-99,089 515,321.5	-191,765 1,282,423	1,745,896 3,678,491
Net margin Median	12.22331% 1.7%	-40.58761% 1.61%	-2.89187% 2.36%	-5.50879% 5.41%	26.55213% 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 BIG SANDY MEDICAL CENTER 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	86,763 1,512,374	34,573 1,478,094	116,646 1,365,460	95,722 1,289,169	117,435 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	86,763 1,441,589	34,573 1,403,245	116,646 1,290,206	95,722 1,229,191	117,435 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	435,268 4,108,627	411,694 4,367,646	327,258 4,566,928	440,902 4,517,324	596,655 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	255,721 3,508,078	207,587 3,742,383	294,709 3,932,686	292,029 3,847,302	414,247 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	179,547 702,405	204,107 746,179	32,549 800,433	148,873 774,040	182,408 742,054
⊳ 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	34,079 553,475.5	84,762 567,149	49,433 599,174.5	119,796 641,417	142,124 631,057
Charity care Median	1,250 190,496	14,847 225,101	8,932 238,624	19,324 260,478.5	21,928 225,887
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	23,084 860,218.5	34,658 933,428	39,982 986,290	66,136 998,939	72,862 871,713
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	0.61% 3.77	0.94% 3.82	1.13% 3.7	1.80% 3.74	1.51% 3.04
Total shortfall/UCC Median	57,163 1,405,482	119,420 1,525,979	89,415 1,576,055	185,932 1,691,815	214,986 1,476,802

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	1,817,448 8,521,101	1,919,156 8,786,419	1,841,152 9,086,354	1,784,274 9,512,636	1,984,587 9,933,360
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	48.39 42.53	52.09 42.58	52.22 42.62	48.58 42.72	41.09 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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