As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 010086
HIGHWAY 78 WEST, WINFIELD AL 35594. County: MARION
System: --
CBSA: Rural Alabama

The 38-bed, acute-care hospital had $-1,223,678 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 12.93908% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 4.92% 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 acute-care 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	57 118	57 118	38 119.5	24 118	24 119
Total beds Median	71 162	71 162	52 162	38 162	38 163.5
FTEs Median	187.34 788.06	179.95 793.42	204.17 806.03	191.38 787.61	200.13 804.34

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	26,320,212 150,932,746	24,368,067 158,950,878	22,834,898 168,696,998	23,271,800 163,454,693	24,905,206 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	29,821,177 149,311,209	29,510,026 156,110,414	25,210,308 164,890,568	24,723,380 166,516,854	26,128,884 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-3,500,965 -964,173	-5,141,959 -643,601.5	-2,375,410 -116,254	-1,451,580 -5,025,862	-1,223,678 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-13.30% -0.62	-21.10% -0.29	-10.40% 0.18	-6.24% -5.07	-4.91% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER compared to all** acute-care 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 acute-care hospitals available to calculate medians:

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
3,157	3,092	3,050	3,052	2,566

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Other income* Median Click here to show/hide details	584,661 5,089,215	642,007 4,572,541	912,372 5,268,134	3,348,141 13,092,619	5,106,977 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	0 370,813	0 309,361.5	0 375,329
⊳ 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	90,549	0	0	61,179	72,336
⊳ 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	23	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	433	0	0	0	35
⊳ 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	6,941	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	2,054	0	0	2,017	2,294
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	480,308	486,768
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	0 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	491,625	642,007	912,372	2,797,673	4,545,544
Total income ? Median	-2,916,304 6,586,430	-4,499,952 6,767,106	-1,463,038 8,419,950	1,896,561 8,094,175	3,883,299 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	3,712,711 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-6,629,015 6,043,842	-4,499,952 5,845,112	-1,463,038 7,606,259	1,896,561 7,283,041	3,883,299 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-24.63872% 4.62%	-17.99256% 4.42%	-6.16087% 5.16%	7.12459% 5.2%	12.93908% 9.25%

* 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 NORTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER compared to all** acute-care hospitals, from CMS cost reports.
The chart below is interactive: click or touch to see more.

2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
3,157	3,092	3,050	3,052	2,566

Medicare revenue

Inpatient and outpatient revenue

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
All inpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	5,183,264 23,241,334	4,558,939 23,709,545	4,715,422 24,248,380	5,075,350 22,858,541	4,767,730 23,620,613
"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	3,337,246 21,577,146	3,035,925 22,041,594	3,179,534 22,722,063	3,559,777 21,570,441	3,608,854 22,140,684
⊳ 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	1,846,018 1,845,420	1,523,014 1,757,392	1,535,888 1,738,842	1,515,573 1,510,463	1,158,876 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	0 3,865,578	0 3,983,889
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Skilled-nursing facilities (SNF) ⊳ Median	0 1,203,033	0 1,215,295	0 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	0 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	5,902,096 11,160,864	3,841,050 11,987,345	3,625,069 12,926,866	3,159,546 11,884,480	3,077,579 13,145,163
"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	5,902,096 10,918,923	3,841,050 11,706,976	3,625,069 12,615,917	3,105,492 11,458,116	2,944,428 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 1,282,808	0 1,407,728	0 1,341,512	0 1,407,046	0 1,476,867
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	0 618,038	0 697,279	0 690,232	54,054 684,010	133,151 670,558
⊳ 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 3,284,314	0 3,250,551	0 3,386,837	0 3,360,806	0 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	29,664 594,888	27,811 595,761	26,556 577,894	22,499 542,168	24,982 549,667
Outlier Median	5,246 582,572	139 538,116	20,355 212,434	21,366 126,559	282 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	0 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	437,923 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	221,280 2,654,636	786,400 2,940,659	687,305 3,380,215	644,660 3,488,738	921,131 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	737,038 5,147,790	1,083,739 5,337,617	1,124,591 5,711,082	1,395,582 5,923,418	1,284,570 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.47% 3.24	3.67% 3.12	4.46% 3.21	5.64% 3.3	4.92% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	737,038 9,489,989	1,083,739 9,424,297	1,562,514 10,120,158	1,395,582 11,171,337	1,284,570 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	9,868,661 52,142,039	10,818,887 54,485,252	11,718,143 57,395,589	11,429,901 58,830,919	12,143,344 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	33.09 36.68	40.91 36.56	46.48 36.37	46.23 35.93	46.47 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 2,598,592	0 2,686,824	0 2,753,773	0 2,937,156	0 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	0 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	0 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	423,920 1,449,244	142,691 1,475,986	108,936 1,563,078	105,631 1,721,954	161,835 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	12,227.00 22,725	4,767.00 23,018.5	4,004.00 24,503.48	3,614.00 25,026.5	5,233.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	34.67 64.67	29.93 64.53	27.21 65.06	29.23 68.97	30.93 88.94

* 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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