As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

WEST HILLS HOSPITAL

CMS id: 050481
7300 MEDICAL CENTER DRIVE, WEST HILLS CA 91307. County: LOS ANGELES
System: HCA
CBSA: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The 214-bed, acute-care hospital had $28,750,777 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 12.41918% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.97% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $23,247,325 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	192 118	192 118	178 119.5	201 118	189 119
Total beds Median	228 162	228 162	214 162	237 162	214 163.5
FTEs Median	766.84 788.06	761.99 793.42	755.41 806.03	713.28 787.61	698.18 804.34

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	229,843,638 150,932,746	225,221,067 158,950,878	248,974,973 168,696,998	219,914,589 163,454,693	234,308,173 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	208,252,637 149,311,209	210,276,897 156,110,414	219,279,006 164,890,568	204,304,233 166,516,854	205,557,396 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	21,591,001 -964,173	14,944,170 -643,601.5	29,695,967 -116,254	15,610,356 -5,025,862	28,750,777 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	9.39% -0.62	6.64% -0.29	11.93% 0.18	7.10% -5.07	12.27% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for WEST HILLS 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	600,461 5,089,215	582,809 4,572,541	574,207 5,268,134	425,859 13,092,619	397,792 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	424,095	381,925	403,507	291,827	264,372
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	99,210	0	0	0	103,328
⊳ 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	18,106	23,614	19,339	2,200	1,353
⊳ 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	2,032	4,972	3,604	264	1,579
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	104,235	89,954	101,056	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	54,393	67,635	57,803	30,512	27,160
Total income ? Median	22,191,462 6,586,430	15,526,979 6,767,106	30,270,174 8,419,950	16,036,215 8,094,175	29,148,569 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	-1 89,880.5	2 106,761	9 31,473.5
Net income Median	22,191,462 6,043,842	15,526,979 5,845,112	30,270,175 7,606,259	16,036,213 7,283,041	29,148,560 14,957,241
Net margin Median	9.62987% 4.62%	6.87631% 4.42%	12.12994% 5.16%	7.27793% 5.2%	12.41918% 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 WEST HILLS 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	53,516,773 23,241,334	53,329,434 23,709,545	53,424,340 24,248,380	51,324,032 22,858,541	52,705,912 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	53,516,773 21,577,146	53,329,434 22,041,594	53,424,340 22,722,063	51,324,032 21,570,441	52,705,912 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	11,842,924 11,160,864	12,382,457 11,987,345	12,832,014 12,926,866	9,642,462 11,884,480	11,361,449 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	11,842,924 10,918,923	12,382,457 11,706,976	12,832,014 12,615,917	9,642,462 11,458,116	11,361,449 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	0 3,386,837	0 3,360,806	0 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	1,911,374 594,888	1,865,061 595,761	2,061,516 577,894	2,291,624 542,168	2,462,162 549,667
Outlier Median	4,259,477 582,572	2,898,644 538,116	367,599 212,434	297,635 126,559	403,385 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	20,635,489 3,662,910	24,081,627 3,730,911	22,285,648 4,081,319	22,090,168 4,643,908	23,247,325 4,389,147
Charity care Median	5,985,761 2,654,636	5,731,241 2,940,659	6,235,870 3,380,215	5,855,654 3,488,738	5,303,310 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	6,906,062 5,147,790	6,926,285 5,337,617	7,339,963 5,711,082	6,862,159 5,923,418	6,106,978 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.32% 3.24	3.29% 3.12	3.35% 3.21	3.36% 3.3	2.97% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	27,541,551 9,489,989	31,007,912 9,424,297	29,625,611 10,120,158	28,952,327 11,171,337	29,354,303 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	84,531,535 52,142,039	86,447,082 54,485,252	90,750,013 57,395,589	86,527,757 58,830,919	84,218,717 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.55 36.68	41.04 36.56	41.34 36.37	42.22 35.93	40.87 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	5,668,460 1,449,244	5,173,205 1,475,986	5,922,211 1,563,078	3,813,441 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	69,216.00 22,725	68,802.00 23,018.5	86,196.00 24,503.48	36,785.00 25,026.5	0.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	81.90 64.67	75.19 64.53	68.71 65.06	103.67 68.97	0.00 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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