As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

TUCSON MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 030006
5301 E GRANT ROAD, TUCSON AZ 85712. County: PIMA
System: TMC HEALTHCARE
CBSA: Tucson, AZ

The 531-bed, acute-care hospital had $-8,253,756 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 6.37670% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.40% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $89,104,287 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	391 118	351 118	351 119.5	351 118	409 119
Total beds Median	513 162	473 162	473 162	473 162	531 163.5
FTEs Median	3,113.69 788.06	3,265.99 793.42	3,388.39 806.03	3,262.90 787.61	3,248.32 804.34

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	533,644,600 150,932,746	556,015,807 158,950,878	597,654,611 168,696,998	588,394,551 163,454,693	677,078,835 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	542,644,624 149,311,209	560,005,827 156,110,414	598,593,522 164,890,568	601,644,026 166,516,854	685,332,591 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-9,000,024 -964,173	-3,990,020 -643,601.5	-938,911 -116,254	-13,249,475 -5,025,862	-8,253,756 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-1.69% -0.62	-0.72% -0.29	-0.16% 0.18	-2.25% -5.07	-1.22% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for TUCSON 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	44,992,653 5,089,215	19,645,772 4,572,541	44,617,384 5,268,134	54,667,022 13,092,619	54,931,902 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	16,375,169 299,524	-10,900,126 188,688.5	13,406,040 370,813	11,231,210 309,361.5	37,166,143 375,329
⊳ 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	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	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	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	28,617,484	30,545,898	31,211,344	43,435,812	17,765,759
Total income ? Median	35,992,629 6,586,430	15,655,752 6,767,106	43,678,473 8,419,950	41,417,547 8,094,175	46,678,146 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	35,992,629 6,043,842	15,655,752 5,845,112	43,678,473 7,606,259	41,417,547 7,283,041	46,678,146 14,957,241
Net margin Median	6.22024% 4.62%	2.71961% 4.42%	6.80062% 5.16%	6.44068% 5.2%	6.37670% 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 TUCSON 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	111,528,569 23,241,334	104,846,770 23,709,545	111,423,133 24,248,380	102,701,893 22,858,541	100,670,721 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	109,260,967 21,577,146	102,928,106 22,041,594	109,507,235 22,722,063	101,458,976 21,570,441	99,614,650 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	2,267,602 1,845,420	1,918,664 1,757,392	1,915,898 1,738,842	1,242,917 1,510,463	1,056,071 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	35,343,851 11,160,864	36,423,737 11,987,345	40,216,973 12,926,866	37,086,558 11,884,480	41,101,744 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	35,343,851 10,918,923	36,423,737 11,706,976	40,216,973 12,615,917	37,086,558 11,458,116	41,101,744 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	5,366,793 3,284,314	5,650,188 3,250,551	5,951,066 3,386,837	5,738,391 3,360,806	5,536,762 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	4,799,265 594,888	4,192,465 595,761	4,422,616 577,894	4,117,488 542,168	4,091,363 549,667
Outlier Median	2,256,996 582,572	1,816,075 538,116	290,291 212,434	277,907 126,559	401,476 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	44,842,707 3,662,910	39,678,422 3,730,911	42,293,794 4,081,319	81,575,370 4,643,908	89,104,287 4,389,147
Charity care Median	3,961,651 2,654,636	7,318,691 2,940,659	12,804,465 3,380,215	6,356,427 3,488,738	4,601,248 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	10,115,129 5,147,790	10,010,414 5,337,617	16,217,987 5,711,082	15,536,486 5,923,418	16,425,363 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.86% 3.24	1.79% 3.12	2.71% 3.21	2.58% 3.3	2.40% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	54,957,836 9,489,989	49,688,836 9,424,297	58,511,781 10,120,158	97,111,856 11,171,337	105,529,650 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	199,253,687 52,142,039	210,804,074 54,485,252	225,148,479 57,395,589	224,934,463 58,830,919	237,089,039 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	36.72 36.68	37.64 36.56	37.61 36.37	37.39 35.93	34.59 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	1,226,460 2,598,592	1,424,354 2,686,824	2,407,249 2,753,773	2,803,858 2,937,156	2,957,187 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	6,914,859 1,449,244	3,634,794 1,475,986	6,197,958 1,563,078	4,695,439 1,721,954	36,784,723 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	114,399.00 22,725	61,270.00 23,018.5	102,855.00 24,503.48	64,755.00 25,026.5	256,004.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	60.45 64.67	59.32 64.53	60.26 65.06	72.51 68.97	143.69 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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