As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SANTA MONICA UCLA MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 050112
1250 16TH STREET, SANTA MONICA CA 90404. County: LOS ANGELES
System: UCOP
CBSA: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The 281-bed, acute-care hospital had $57,085,654 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 10.19821% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.41% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $14,678,874 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	227 118	227 118	243 119.5	243 118	243 119
Total beds Median	265 162	265 162	281 162	281 162	281 163.5
FTEs Median	1,977.00 788.06	2,016.84 793.42	2,034.07 806.03	2,096.23 787.61	2,152.45 804.34

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	560,273,485 150,932,746	555,792,480 158,950,878	631,408,041 168,696,998	641,110,000 163,454,693	713,458,566 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	571,436,906 149,311,209	557,600,349 156,110,414	644,616,357 164,890,568	683,253,242 166,516,854	656,372,912 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-11,163,421 -964,173	-1,807,869 -643,601.5	-13,208,316 -116,254	-42,143,242 -5,025,862	57,085,654 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-1.99% -0.62	-0.33% -0.29	-2.09% 0.18	-6.57% -5.07	8.00% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SANTA MONICA UCLA 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	20,496,421 5,089,215	22,397,869 4,572,541	21,698,316 5,268,134	57,193,242 13,092,619	17,454,346 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	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	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	20,496,421	22,397,869	21,698,316	57,193,242	17,454,346
Total income ? Median	9,333,000 6,586,430	20,590,000 6,767,106	8,490,000 8,419,950	15,050,000 8,094,175	74,540,000 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	6,810,000 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	9,333,000 6,043,842	20,590,000 5,845,112	8,490,000 7,606,259	8,240,000 7,283,041	74,540,000 14,957,241
Net margin Median	1.60700% 4.62%	3.56111% 4.42%	1.29994% 5.16%	1.18000% 5.2%	10.19821% 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 SANTA MONICA UCLA 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	86,273,451 23,241,334	86,363,562 23,709,545	106,823,539 24,248,380	106,546,678 22,858,541	119,027,123 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	86,273,451 21,577,146	86,363,562 22,041,594	106,823,539 22,722,063	106,546,678 21,570,441	119,027,123 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	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	22,031,740 11,160,864	27,026,256 11,987,345	30,979,360 12,926,866	32,743,390 11,884,480	37,748,045 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	22,031,740 10,918,923	27,026,256 11,706,976	30,979,360 12,615,917	32,743,390 11,458,116	37,748,045 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	11,550,849 3,284,314	11,737,090 3,250,551	13,205,280 3,386,837	15,181,346 3,360,806	17,993,762 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	2,028,536 594,888	2,080,531 595,761	1,946,240 577,894	2,282,806 542,168	2,405,942 549,667
Outlier Median	14,101,125 582,572	12,378,367 538,116	24,391,290 212,434	3,954,523 126,559	3,644,658 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	1,940,226 3,662,910	16,699,145 3,730,911	24,639,705 4,081,319	17,576,446 4,643,908	14,678,874 4,389,147
Charity care Median	6,341,987 2,654,636	2,835,582 2,940,659	4,231,549 3,380,215	4,740,759 3,488,738	5,702,379 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	10,332,622 5,147,790	7,686,562 5,337,617	8,031,162 5,711,082	10,892,880 5,923,418	9,283,687 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.81% 3.24	1.38% 3.12	1.25% 3.21	1.59% 3.3	1.41% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	12,272,848 9,489,989	24,385,707 9,424,297	32,670,867 10,120,158	28,469,326 11,171,337	23,962,561 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	195,408,614 52,142,039	203,007,171 54,485,252	206,595,506 57,395,589	225,847,961 58,830,919	236,781,586 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	34.20 36.68	36.41 36.56	32.05 36.37	33.05 35.93	36.07 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	2,137,273 2,598,592	1,945,142 2,686,824	2,164,090 2,753,773	2,932,994 2,937,156	3,000,132 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	5,042,955 1,449,244	5,166,118 1,475,986	5,775,012 1,563,078	7,986,723 1,721,954	3,333,035 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	58,685.00 22,725	61,476.00 23,018.5	87,781.00 24,503.48	99,655.00 25,026.5	58,474.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	85.93 64.67	84.03 64.53	65.79 65.06	80.14 68.97	57.00 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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