As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

NORTHERN ROCKIES MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 271337
802 SECOND STREET SE, CUTBANK MT 59427. County: GLACIER
System: --
CBSA: Rural Montana

The 20-bed, CAH hospital had $385,614 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 22.99673% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 4.14% 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	243
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	20 23	20 23	20 23	20 23	20 23
Total beds Median	20 25	20 25	20 25	20 25	20 25
FTEs Median	79.29 149.18	69.69 151.6	66.02 151.58	64.45 152.78	72.55 151.99

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	7,802,336 19,395,819	7,059,545 19,790,685	7,537,544 20,891,573	7,948,424 20,752,910	6,380,300 22,925,976
Operating expenses Median	9,194,138 21,082,256	9,473,482 21,740,728	8,973,450 22,449,917	8,543,926 23,028,561	5,994,686 24,906,213
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-1,391,802 -1,166,928	-2,413,937 -1,178,891	-1,435,906 -1,189,234	-595,502 -1,989,193	385,614 -1,175,562
NS2P margin ? Median	-17.84% -6.37	-34.19% -6.47	-19.05% -6.58	-7.49% -10.52	6.04% -5.81

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for NORTHERN ROCKIES 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	1,365,528 1,517,926	1,562,763 1,554,100	1,761,102 1,708,825	2,669,463 3,606,354	1,404,676 4,946,640
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	38,001 68,435	190,383 61,711.5	43,465 71,344	143,364 80,654	89,481 103,902
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	411 25,389	543 35,427	443 59,240	396 47,652	404 52,317
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	1,202	2,367	654	385	1,122
⊳ 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	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	2,035	1,582	2,179	1,369	801
⊳ 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	21,905	21,010	14,463	5,520	3,360
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	871,039 525,619.5	934,237 568,101.5	1,109,164 581,486	1,142,244 657,916	1,010,888 640,942
⊳ Sum Line 24	430,935	412,641	590,734	1,376,185	298,620
Total income ? Median	-26,274 445,049	-851,174 379,292	325,196 655,032	2,073,961 1,453,054	1,790,290 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	-26,274 309,249	-851,174 305,537	325,196 515,321.5	2,073,961 1,282,423	1,790,290 3,678,491
Net margin Median	-0.28659% 1.7%	-9.87177% 1.61%	3.49724% 2.36%	19.53271% 5.41%	22.99673% 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 NORTHERN ROCKIES 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	683,815 1,512,374	599,736 1,478,094	511,437 1,365,460	632,631 1,289,169	241,064 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	683,815 1,441,589	599,736 1,403,245	511,437 1,290,206	632,631 1,229,191	241,064 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	1,373,979 4,108,627	1,362,777 4,367,646	1,469,939 4,566,928	1,435,827 4,517,324	895,169 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	1,073,451 3,508,078	1,099,382 3,742,383	1,248,831 3,932,686	1,241,923 3,847,302	763,787 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	300,528 702,405	263,395 746,179	221,108 800,433	193,904 774,040	131,382 742,054
⊳ 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	1,409,251 553,475.5	1,982,695 567,149	1,436,374 599,174.5	0 641,417	0 631,057
Charity care Median	88,253 190,496	90,918 225,101	99,754 238,624	126,279 260,478.5	120,228 225,887
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	358,774 860,218.5	415,260 933,428	398,668 986,290	420,515 998,939	248,469 871,713
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.90% 3.77	4.38% 3.82	4.44% 3.7	4.92% 3.74	4.14% 3.04
Total shortfall/UCC Median	1,768,025 1,405,482	2,397,955 1,525,979	1,835,042 1,576,055	420,515 1,691,815	248,469 1,476,802

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	4,907,778 8,521,101	4,847,319 8,786,419	4,698,836 9,086,354	4,786,697 9,512,636	3,373,345 9,933,360
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	53.38 42.53	51.17 42.58	52.36 42.62	56.02 42.72	56.27 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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