As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SHOALS HOSPITAL

CMS id: 010157
201 W AVALON AVE., MUSCLE SHOALS AL 35661. County: COLBERT
System: LIFEPOINT HEALTH
CBSA: Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL

The 184-bed, acute-care hospital had $-967,836 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of -1.99028% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 12.27% 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	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit
Acute beds Median	112 118	112 118	112 119.5	112 118	112 119
Total beds Median	184 162	184 162	184 162	184 162	184 163.5
FTEs Median	266.26 788.06	249.98 793.42	234.33 806.03	235.57 787.61	231.29 804.34

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	37,395,710 150,932,746	32,193,742 158,950,878	31,233,070 168,696,998	32,120,288 163,454,693	28,937,504 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	39,458,769 149,311,209	36,944,422 156,110,414	31,568,610 164,890,568	33,031,449 166,516,854	29,905,340 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-2,063,059 -964,173	-4,750,680 -643,601.5	-335,540 -116,254	-911,161 -5,025,862	-967,836 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-5.52% -0.62	-14.76% -0.29	-1.07% 0.18	-2.84% -5.07	-3.34% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SHOALS 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	217,386 5,089,215	223,940 4,572,541	482,826 5,268,134	-267,807 13,092,619	384,252 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	19,725 299,524	54,749 188,688.5	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	200	244	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	129,099	109,333	0	0	100,340
⊳ 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	1,402	0	0	0	99
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	-96	20	0	0	122
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	16,973	14,552	0	0	1,158
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	15,022	10,562	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	35,061	34,480	482,826	-267,807	282,533
Total income ? Median	-1,845,673 6,586,430	-4,526,740 6,767,106	147,286 8,419,950	-1,178,968 8,094,175	-583,584 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	20,600 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-1,845,673 6,043,842	-4,547,340 5,845,112	147,286 7,606,259	-1,178,968 7,283,041	-583,584 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-4.90700% 4.62%	-14.02734% 4.42%	0.46439% 5.16%	-3.70134% 5.2%	-1.99028% 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 SHOALS 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	15,453,480 23,241,334	13,479,733 23,709,545	12,364,723 24,248,380	12,530,893 22,858,541	12,143,134 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	4,451,936 21,577,146	3,018,536 22,041,594	2,601,715 22,722,063	2,400,910 21,570,441	2,267,912 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	2,700,894 1,845,420	2,909,326 1,757,392	1,853,639 1,738,842	1,502,094 1,510,463	2,077,117 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	8,300,650 3,535,627	7,551,871 3,746,588	7,909,369 3,782,288	8,627,889 3,865,578	7,798,105 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	2,906,878 11,160,864	2,210,640 11,987,345	1,600,888 12,926,866	1,390,487 11,884,480	818,371 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	2,906,878 10,918,923	2,210,640 11,706,976	1,600,888 12,615,917	1,390,487 11,458,116	818,371 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	0 684,010	0 670,558
⊳ 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	70,957 594,888	27,077 595,761	51,811 577,894	67,003 542,168	46,715 549,667
Outlier Median	40,375 582,572	48,389 538,116	24,967 212,434	42,507 126,559	29,870 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	0 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	131,969 2,654,636	324,136 2,940,659	408,773 3,380,215	1,150,661 3,488,738	1,757,850 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	1,713,871 5,147,790	2,116,788 5,337,617	2,128,953 5,711,082	2,172,862 5,923,418	3,668,859 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	4.34% 3.24	5.73% 3.12	6.74% 3.21	6.58% 3.3	12.27% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	1,713,871 9,489,989	2,116,788 9,424,297	2,128,953 10,120,158	2,172,862 11,171,337	3,668,859 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	13,456,195 52,142,039	13,152,203 54,485,252	12,185,660 57,395,589	12,639,906 58,830,919	12,586,027 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	34.10 36.68	35.60 36.56	37.83 36.37	37.78 35.93	41.87 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	805,190 1,449,244	383,691 1,475,986	162,328 1,563,078	121,451 1,721,954	394,730 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	19,908.00 22,725	10,547.30 23,018.5	2,330.00 24,503.48	1,768.00 25,026.5	6,576.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	40.45 64.67	36.38 64.53	69.67 65.06	68.69 68.97	60.03 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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