As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PONDERA MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 271324
805 SUNSET BLVD, CONRAD MT 59425. County: PONDERA
System: --
CBSA: Rural Montana

The 79-bed, CAH hospital had $-711,244 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 18.69222% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.82% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $0 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	151
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	20 23	20 23	20 23	20 23	20 23
Total beds Median	79 25	79 25	79 25	79 25	79 25
FTEs Median	146.80 149.18	141.36 151.6	133.04 151.58	130.13 152.78	119.24 151.99

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	12,927,414 19,395,819	13,390,605 19,790,685	12,820,120 20,891,573	14,442,206 20,752,910	5,747,505 22,925,976
Operating expenses Median	14,318,392 21,082,256	14,515,646 21,740,728	15,294,422 22,449,917	15,332,477 23,028,561	6,458,749 24,906,213
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-1,390,978 -1,166,928	-1,125,041 -1,178,891	-2,474,302 -1,189,234	-890,271 -1,989,193	-711,244 -1,175,562
NS2P margin ? Median	-10.76% -6.37	-8.40% -6.47	-19.30% -6.58	-6.16% -10.52	-12.37% -5.81

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PONDERA 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	1,959,694 1,517,926	1,470,764 1,554,100	1,779,242 1,708,825	2,113,591 3,606,354	2,196,076 4,946,640
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	615,789 68,435	316,168 61,711.5	207,382 71,344	278,835 80,654	131,189 103,902
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	41,180 25,389	34,686 35,427	47,167 59,240	50,866 47,652	31,602 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	83,542	79,401	33,672	12,141	23,335
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	1,038	1,216	1,118	500	20
⊳ 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	377	545	402	584	200
⊳ 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	23	37	62	62	1,318
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	485,051 525,619.5	533,960 568,101.5	816,826 581,486	835,851 657,916	263,121 640,942
⊳ Sum Line 24	732,694	504,751	672,613	934,752	1,745,291
Total income ? Median	568,716 445,049	345,723 379,292	-695,060 655,032	1,223,320 1,453,054	1,484,832 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	568,716 309,249	345,723 305,537	-695,060 515,321.5	1,223,320 1,282,423	1,484,832 3,678,491
Net margin Median	3.82019% 1.7%	2.32632% 1.61%	-4.76089% 2.36%	7.38907% 5.41%	18.69222% 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 PONDERA 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	181,236 1,512,374	267,808 1,478,094	261,629 1,365,460	241,980 1,289,169	36,290 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	181,236 1,441,589	263,704 1,403,245	261,629 1,290,206	241,980 1,229,191	36,290 1,287,699
⊳ Skilled-nursing facilities (SNF) ⊳ Median	0 206,041.5	4,104 214,490	0 174,030.5	0 236,717.5	0 192,758.5
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	2,659,085 4,108,627	2,795,980 4,367,646	2,913,120 4,566,928	3,284,796 4,517,324	1,093,570 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	2,214,278 3,508,078	2,243,372 3,742,383	2,331,443 3,932,686	2,730,309 3,847,302	854,645 3,879,271
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	87,688 299,331.5	164,589 299,936	128,851 316,639	86,736 288,635	14,581 297,926
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	357,119 702,405	388,019 746,179	452,826 800,433	467,751 774,040	224,344 742,054
⊳ 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	9 5,256	0 5,165.5	0 6,341	0 5,998

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	125,072 553,475.5	61,592 567,149	273,425 599,174.5	150,524 641,417	0 631,057
Charity care Median	124,140 190,496	38,742 225,101	20,342 238,624	20,280 260,478.5	18,299 225,887
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	358,071 860,218.5	310,912 933,428	306,152 986,290	286,333 998,939	181,959 871,713
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.50% 3.77	2.14% 3.82	2.00% 3.7	1.87% 3.74	2.82% 3.04
Total shortfall/UCC Median	483,143 1,405,482	372,504 1,525,979	579,577 1,576,055	436,857 1,691,815	181,959 1,476,802

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	7,174,182 8,521,101	7,158,079 8,786,419	7,012,275 9,086,354	7,454,089 9,512,636	3,110,001 9,933,360
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	50.10 42.53	49.31 42.58	45.85 42.62	48.62 42.72	48.15 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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