As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

WHITFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 010112
105 HIGHWAY 80 EAST, DEMOPOLIS AL 36732. County: MARENGO
System: --
CBSA: Rural Alabama

The 64-bed, acute-care hospital had $-5,791,505 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 18.27167% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.57% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $5,929 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	gov	gov	gov	gov	gov
Acute beds Median	82 118	32 118	32 119.5	33 118	36 119
Total beds Median	99 162	57 162	57 162	61 162	64 163.5
FTEs Median	248.85 788.06	259.78 793.42	255.57 806.03	261.71 787.61	265.48 804.34

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	21,412,085 150,932,746	22,399,829 158,950,878	23,942,207 168,696,998	28,865,850 163,454,693	36,112,471 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	29,007,709 149,311,209	26,738,435 156,110,414	28,402,773 164,890,568	34,033,114 166,516,854	41,903,976 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-7,595,624 -964,173	-4,338,606 -643,601.5	-4,460,566 -116,254	-5,167,264 -5,025,862	-5,791,505 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-35.47% -0.62	-19.37% -0.29	-18.63% 0.18	-17.90% -5.07	-16.04% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for WHITFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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	2,926,371 5,089,215	1,726,889 4,572,541	1,694,098 5,268,134	17,612,261 13,092,619	15,159,805 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	681,342 199,009	287,654 206,870.5	15,595,950 194,343	558,397 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	2,852 188,688.5	2,434 370,813	17,283 309,361.5	64,457 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	4,704	268,967	215,369	179,701
⊳ 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	107,162	85,106	70,465	76,385
⊳ 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	201	417	89	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	0	253,144	245,241	225,974	216,429
⊳ 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	2,926,371	672,666	804,279	1,487,131	14,064,436
Total income ? Median	-4,669,253 6,586,430	-2,611,717 6,767,106	-2,766,468 8,419,950	12,444,997 8,094,175	9,368,300 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-4,669,253 6,043,842	-2,611,717 5,845,112	-2,766,468 7,606,259	12,444,997 7,283,041	9,368,300 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-19.18467% 4.62%	-10.82500% 4.42%	-10.79121% 5.16%	26.77604% 5.2%	18.27167% 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 WHITFIELD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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	5,292,343 23,241,334	5,604,769 23,709,545	4,755,208 24,248,380	6,109,546 22,858,541	7,614,444 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	3,795,531 21,577,146	3,829,355 22,041,594	3,222,038 22,722,063	4,680,597 21,570,441	6,333,548 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	1,496,812 1,845,420	1,775,414 1,757,392	1,533,170 1,738,842	1,428,949 1,510,463	1,280,896 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	3,882,213 11,160,864	4,092,023 11,987,345	4,659,289 12,926,866	4,739,885 11,884,480	4,036,841 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	3,197,757 10,918,923	3,420,934 11,706,976	4,091,797 12,615,917	4,105,039 11,458,116	3,103,164 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	684,456 1,282,808	671,089 1,407,728	567,492 1,341,512	627,197 1,407,046	484,135 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	7,649 684,010	449,542 670,558
⊳ 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	71,338 594,888	68,794 595,761	48,825 577,894	79,372 542,168	114,424 549,667
Outlier Median	4,925 582,572	7,707 538,116	15,565 212,434	14,959 126,559	8,280 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	822,962 3,662,910	881,706 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	5,717 4,643,908	5,929 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,456,532 2,654,636	623,466 2,940,659	541,676 3,380,215	665,468 3,488,738	798,541 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	2,811,482 5,147,790	1,783,648 5,337,617	1,205,982 5,711,082	2,033,428 5,923,418	1,497,337 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	9.69% 3.24	6.67% 3.12	4.25% 3.21	5.97% 3.3	3.57% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	3,634,444 9,489,989	2,665,354 9,424,297	1,205,982 10,120,158	2,039,145 11,171,337	1,503,266 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	11,151,885 52,142,039	11,033,143 54,485,252	11,163,423 57,395,589	13,542,584 58,830,919	15,357,729 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.73 36.68	41.26 36.56	39.30 36.37	39.79 35.93	36.65 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	84,095 1,449,244	121,192 1,475,986	151,017 1,563,078	129,233 1,721,954	823,996 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	746.00 22,725	2,027.98 23,018.5	2,451.00 24,503.48	2,095.78 25,026.5	13,345.29 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	112.73 64.67	59.76 64.53	61.61 65.06	61.66 68.97	61.74 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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