As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER- NLR

CMS id: 040036
3333 SPRINGHILL DRIVE, NORTH LITTLE ROCK AR 72117. County: PULASKI
System: BAPTIST HEALTH
CBSA: Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR

The 224-bed, acute-care hospital had $1,343,286 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 9.52052% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.85% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $2,594,438 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	144 118	143 118	148 119.5	152 118	153 119
Total beds Median	213 162	205 162	210 162	214 162	224 163.5
FTEs Median	1,028.81 788.06	1,034.28 793.42	990.81 806.03	966.58 787.61	1,101.03 804.34

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	170,221,287 150,932,746	181,137,856 158,950,878	192,286,416 168,696,998	204,343,347 163,454,693	257,099,974 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	176,078,246 149,311,209	184,678,839 156,110,414	193,841,240 164,890,568	197,203,282 166,516,854	255,756,688 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-5,856,959 -964,173	-3,540,983 -643,601.5	-1,554,824 -116,254	7,140,065 -5,025,862	1,343,286 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-3.44% -0.62	-1.95% -0.29	-0.81% 0.18	3.49% -5.07	0.52% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER- NLR 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	8,255,367 5,089,215	3,090,346 4,572,541	12,595,068 5,268,134	11,797,010 13,092,619	19,874,812 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	107,509 224,999	709,135 199,009	3,746,799 206,870.5	3,729,826 194,343	423,862 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	5,587,513 299,524	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	58,474	1,100	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	736,918	828,004	965,904	834,186	892,376
⊳ 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	1,764,953	1,552,107	7,882,365	7,232,998	18,558,574
Total income ? Median	2,398,408 6,586,430	-450,637 6,767,106	11,040,244 8,419,950	18,937,075 8,094,175	21,218,098 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	1,550,537 164,857	0 89,880.5	-5,609,434 106,761	-5,151,345 31,473.5
Net income Median	2,398,408 6,043,842	-2,001,174 5,845,112	11,040,244 7,606,259	24,546,509 7,283,041	26,369,443 14,957,241
Net margin Median	1.34382% 4.62%	-1.08625% 4.42%	5.38860% 5.16%	11.35674% 5.2%	9.52052% 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 BAPTIST HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER- NLR 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	50,243,001 23,241,334	50,789,967 23,709,545	53,143,872 24,248,380	59,225,580 22,858,541	71,479,947 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	41,988,625 21,577,146	42,695,022 22,041,594	45,487,941 22,722,063	50,653,746 21,570,441	63,702,480 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	0 1,845,420	0 1,757,392	0 1,738,842	0 1,510,463	0 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	7,556,906 3,535,627	7,406,466 3,746,588	7,025,932 3,782,288	8,571,834 3,865,578	7,777,467 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	697,470 1,203,033	688,479 1,215,295	629,999 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	0 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	20,067,623 11,160,864	21,690,438 11,987,345	21,922,262 12,926,866	20,205,392 11,884,480	24,467,836 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	20,067,623 10,918,923	21,690,438 11,706,976	21,922,262 12,615,917	20,205,392 11,458,116	24,467,836 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	1,328,026 3,386,837	6,256,079 3,360,806	12,152,476 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	893,669 594,888	900,019 595,761	937,666 577,894	966,621 542,168	1,152,496 549,667
Outlier Median	428,070 582,572	461,393 538,116	28,365 212,434	55,525 126,559	83,803 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	4,107,871 3,662,910	3,438,170 3,730,911	4,505,676 4,081,319	414,309 4,643,908	2,594,438 4,389,147
Charity care Median	5,173,453 2,654,636	6,517,183 2,940,659	6,240,675 3,380,215	6,571,987 3,488,738	8,344,695 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	6,208,508 5,147,790	8,159,265 5,337,617	7,809,304 5,711,082	8,271,475 5,923,418	9,840,484 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.53% 3.24	4.42% 3.12	4.03% 3.21	4.19% 3.3	3.85% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	10,316,379 9,489,989	11,597,435 9,424,297	12,314,980 10,120,158	8,685,784 11,171,337	12,434,922 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	55,771,809 52,142,039	54,757,712 54,485,252	57,833,100 57,395,589	62,346,014 58,830,919	71,242,674 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.19 36.68	36.57 36.56	36.22 36.37	36.89 35.93	32.00 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	3,100,062 1,449,244	4,402,785 1,475,986	3,361,838 1,563,078	2,910,277 1,721,954	21,581,712 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	74,959.47 22,725	86,038.00 23,018.5	67,917.76 24,503.48	65,568.27 25,026.5	196,774.81 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	41.36 64.67	51.17 64.53	49.50 65.06	44.39 68.97	109.68 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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