As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SALINE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 040084
#1 MEDICAL PARK DRIVE, BENTON AR 72015. County: SALINE
System: LIFEPOINT HEALTH
CBSA: Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR

The 161-bed, acute-care hospital had $-8,955,230 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 1.28272% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.14% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $1,024,341 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	121 118	114 118	114 119.5	114 118	114 119
Total beds Median	184 162	177 162	177 162	177 162	161 163.5
FTEs Median	736.10 788.06	737.10 793.42	714.29 806.03	601.39 787.61	437.33 804.34

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	102,290,096 150,932,746	105,759,092 158,950,878	109,676,400 168,696,998	96,286,530 163,454,693	102,678,653 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	105,032,125 149,311,209	107,470,421 156,110,414	111,103,736 164,890,568	96,837,296 166,516,854	111,633,883 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-2,742,029 -964,173	-1,711,329 -643,601.5	-1,427,336 -116,254	-550,766 -5,025,862	-8,955,230 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-2.68% -0.62	-1.62% -0.29	-1.30% 0.18	-0.57% -5.07	-8.72% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SALINE 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	1,672,549 5,089,215	2,290,107 4,572,541	2,349,621 5,268,134	2,502,784 13,092,619	10,405,786 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	45,715 199,009	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	6,820	7,975
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	882,840	827,855	788,192	610,671	455,432
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	55,933	50,231	69,970	132,834	75,665
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	64,004	0	0	0	66
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	5,482	6,764	3,817	4,627	0
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	71,522	51,410	42,315	30,130	90,630
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	9,358	7,836	7,564	7,244	5,207
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	256,280	858,518	838,362	688,885	669,538
⊳ 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	327,130	441,778	564,998	986,180	9,101,273
Total income ? Median	-1,069,480 6,586,430	578,778 6,767,106	922,285 8,419,950	1,952,018 8,094,175	1,450,556 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	-1,069,480 6,043,842	578,778 5,845,112	922,285 7,606,259	1,952,018 7,283,041	1,450,556 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-1.02872% 4.62%	0.53566% 4.42%	0.82328% 5.16%	1.97594% 5.2%	1.28272% 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 SALINE 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	24,648,873 23,241,334	24,135,414 23,709,545	24,207,814 24,248,380	22,042,148 22,858,541	22,198,538 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	18,348,431 21,577,146	18,140,094 22,041,594	18,071,976 22,722,063	16,189,891 21,570,441	16,197,599 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	1,982,670 1,845,420	1,574,087 1,757,392	1,329,688 1,738,842	1,164,634 1,510,463	1,184,800 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	4,317,772 3,535,627	4,421,233 3,746,588	4,806,150 3,782,288	4,687,623 3,865,578	4,816,139 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	9,603,842 11,160,864	10,946,185 11,987,345	11,357,238 12,926,866	7,432,844 11,884,480	6,475,980 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	8,052,777 10,918,923	9,463,022 11,706,976	9,641,848 12,615,917	6,811,829 11,458,116	6,475,980 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	1,551,065 1,282,808	1,483,163 1,407,728	1,715,390 1,341,512	621,015 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	558,591 594,888	534,935 595,761	609,465 577,894	646,707 542,168	560,114 549,667
Outlier Median	201,707 582,572	195,778 538,116	303,231 212,434	80,288 126,559	161,681 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	1,189,810 3,662,910	1,227,020 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	1,024,341 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,456,055 2,654,636	2,336,579 2,940,659	3,854,180 3,380,215	2,464,359 3,488,738	2,328,435 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	3,043,257 5,147,790	3,838,826 5,337,617	5,138,460 5,711,082	4,027,993 5,923,418	3,506,032 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.90% 3.24	3.57% 3.12	4.62% 3.21	4.16% 3.3	3.14% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	4,233,067 9,489,989	5,065,846 9,424,297	5,138,460 10,120,158	4,027,993 11,171,337	4,530,373 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	40,016,910 52,142,039	40,431,278 54,485,252	47,474,173 57,395,589	41,381,306 58,830,919	39,051,010 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.88 36.68	41.03 36.56	42.89 36.37	43.13 35.93	35.16 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	0 1,449,244	0 1,475,986	520,758 1,563,078	2,443,262 1,721,954	1,443,377 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	0.00 22,725	0.00 23,018.5	7,772.00 24,503.48	31,857.00 25,026.5	23,743.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	0.00 64.67	0.00 64.53	67.00 65.06	76.69 68.97	60.79 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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