As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 050235
501 S. BUENA VISTA ST, BURBANK CA 91505. County: LOS ANGELES
System: PROVIDENCE HEALTH & SERVICES
CBSA: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The 392-bed, acute-care hospital had $-74,887,272 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of -14.74259% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.47% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $27,900,300 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	310 118	319 118	319 119.5	225 118	319 119
Total beds Median	383 162	392 162	392 162	298 162	392 163.5
FTEs Median	1,593.55 788.06	1,597.93 793.42	1,571.33 806.03	1,565.61 787.61	1,458.64 804.34

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	427,323,706 150,932,746	452,826,118 158,950,878	473,244,826 168,696,998	453,940,942 163,454,693	454,894,822 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	470,801,265 149,311,209	501,346,814 156,110,414	491,310,128 164,890,568	528,593,712 166,516,854	529,782,094 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-43,477,559 -964,173	-48,520,696 -643,601.5	-18,065,302 -116,254	-74,652,770 -5,025,862	-74,887,272 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-10.17% -0.62	-10.72% -0.29	-3.82% 0.18	-16.45% -5.07	-16.46% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH 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	24,771,961 5,089,215	10,083,472 4,572,541	17,520,132 5,268,134	61,268,236 13,092,619	6,818,755 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	6,063,849 224,999	808,265 199,009	6,151,649 206,870.5	5,502,672 194,343	1,932,699 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	237,700 299,524	128,283 188,688.5	43,680 370,813	36,058 309,361.5	30,488 375,329
⊳ 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	92,189	102,971	90,330	24,635	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.)	81,000	74,139	74,749	25,458	28,955
⊳ 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	469,960	509,336	530,210	536,613	1,071,170
⊳ 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	17,827,263	8,460,478	10,629,514	55,142,800	3,755,443
Total income ? Median	-18,705,598 6,586,430	-38,437,224 6,767,106	-545,170 8,419,950	-13,384,534 8,094,175	-68,068,517 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	-18,705,598 6,043,842	-38,437,224 5,845,112	-545,170 7,606,259	-13,384,534 7,283,041	-68,068,517 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-4.13753% 4.62%	-8.30340% 4.42%	-0.11109% 5.16%	-2.59788% 5.2%	-14.74259% 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 PROVIDENCE ST JOSEPH 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	89,764,569 23,241,334	89,302,793 23,709,545	85,610,509 24,248,380	86,485,161 22,858,541	90,455,701 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	86,084,816 21,577,146	85,296,945 22,041,594	82,758,844 22,722,063	82,244,461 21,570,441	85,060,930 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	3,679,753 3,535,627	4,005,848 3,746,588	2,851,665 3,782,288	4,240,700 3,865,578	5,394,771 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	35,622,905 11,160,864	34,151,017 11,987,345	33,293,817 12,926,866	30,687,926 11,884,480	33,854,773 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	33,101,010 10,918,923	31,958,459 11,706,976	31,515,437 12,615,917	27,506,432 11,458,116	33,854,773 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	2,521,895 1,282,808	2,192,558 1,407,728	1,778,380 1,341,512	3,181,494 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	4,967,468 594,888	4,890,094 595,761	4,543,034 577,894	4,522,550 542,168	5,129,542 549,667
Outlier Median	6,481,008 582,572	3,947,176 538,116	265,407 212,434	382,743 126,559	368,480 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	18,360,903 3,662,910	12,650,781 3,730,911	9,381,360 4,081,319	19,974,767 4,643,908	27,900,300 4,389,147
Charity care Median	7,897,567 2,654,636	7,660,254 2,940,659	7,488,035 3,380,215	4,803,234 3,488,738	4,723,031 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	9,768,474 5,147,790	9,632,876 5,337,617	9,447,313 5,711,082	7,907,972 5,923,418	7,798,763 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.07% 3.24	1.92% 3.12	1.92% 3.21	1.50% 3.3	1.47% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	28,129,377 9,489,989	22,283,657 9,424,297	18,828,673 10,120,158	27,882,739 11,171,337	35,699,063 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	152,548,393 52,142,039	153,070,373 54,485,252	154,477,052 57,395,589	159,304,029 58,830,919	156,672,951 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	47.46 36.68	45.59 36.56	45.81 36.37	44.35 35.93	44.82 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	2,448,190 1,449,244	9,249,703 1,475,986	8,445,121 1,563,078	12,597,550 1,721,954	21,112,146 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	32,918.00 22,725	89,991.00 23,018.5	85,837.00 24,503.48	107,140.00 25,026.5	144,118.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	74.37 64.67	102.78 64.53	98.39 65.06	117.58 68.97	146.49 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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