As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

THCC SIERRA VISTA REGIONAL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 050506
1010 MURRAY AVENUE, SAN LUIS OBISPO CA 93405. County: SAN LUIS OBISPO
System: TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION
CBSA: San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA

The 162-bed, acute-care hospital had $14,869,681 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 13.02914% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.13% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $3,638,398 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	117 118	117 118	123 119.5	123 118	123 119
Total beds Median	156 162	156 162	162 162	162 162	162 163.5
FTEs Median	474.00 788.06	495.30 793.42	520.00 806.03	449.00 787.61	445.00 804.34

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	141,589,682 150,932,746	166,704,412 158,950,878	161,077,128 168,696,998	162,569,392 163,454,693	165,659,126 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	132,659,790 149,311,209	140,516,307 156,110,414	147,574,902 164,890,568	151,663,087 166,516,854	150,789,445 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	8,929,892 -964,173	26,188,105 -643,601.5	13,502,226 -116,254	10,906,305 -5,025,862	14,869,681 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	6.31% -0.62	15.71% -0.29	8.38% 0.18	6.71% -5.07	8.98% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for THCC SIERRA VISTA REGIONAL 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	536,827 5,089,215	478,123 4,572,541	721,503 5,268,134	652,520 13,092,619	7,720,154 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	-305 299,524	775 188,688.5	1,658 370,813	43 309,361.5	203 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	799	1,262	2,591	639	314
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	36,497	41,065	59,670	67,685	83,180
⊳ 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	20,165	29,780	41,746	47,531	23,483
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	14,755	24,872	13,698	6,717	1,045
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	5,673	5,125	4,973	7,186	11,147
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	138,797	138,620	137,858	140,566	140,520
⊳ 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	320,446	236,624	459,309	382,153	7,460,262
Total income ? Median	9,466,719 6,586,430	26,666,228 6,767,106	14,223,729 8,419,950	11,558,825 8,094,175	22,589,835 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	9,466,719 6,043,842	26,666,228 5,845,112	14,223,729 7,606,259	11,558,825 7,283,041	22,589,835 14,957,241
Net margin Median	6.66077% 4.62%	15.95037% 4.42%	8.79101% 5.16%	7.08166% 5.2%	13.02914% 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 THCC SIERRA VISTA REGIONAL 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	22,082,641 23,241,334	22,886,954 23,709,545	23,674,458 24,248,380	21,948,773 22,858,541	24,019,118 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	22,082,641 21,577,146	22,886,954 22,041,594	23,674,458 22,722,063	21,948,773 21,570,441	24,019,118 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	7,034,663 11,160,864	7,784,688 11,987,345	8,451,976 12,926,866	7,828,330 11,884,480	8,144,427 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	7,034,663 10,918,923	7,784,688 11,706,976	8,451,976 12,615,917	7,828,330 11,458,116	8,144,427 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	924,945 594,888	940,490 595,761	1,005,367 577,894	954,981 542,168	987,580 549,667
Outlier Median	1,290,696 582,572	1,209,326 538,116	1,408,312 212,434	87,286 126,559	105,348 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	11,093,577 3,662,910	1,868,759 3,730,911	7,584,903 4,081,319	6,265,659 4,643,908	3,638,398 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,022,092 2,654,636	1,120,422 2,940,659	1,403,721 3,380,215	1,577,115 3,488,738	1,129,904 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	1,826,710 5,147,790	1,836,198 5,337,617	2,524,684 5,711,082	2,563,441 5,923,418	1,702,924 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.38% 3.24	1.31% 3.12	1.71% 3.21	1.69% 3.3	1.13% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	12,920,287 9,489,989	3,704,957 9,424,297	10,109,587 10,120,158	8,829,100 11,171,337	5,341,322 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	54,984,747 52,142,039	58,194,981 54,485,252	60,189,270 57,395,589	59,123,323 58,830,919	59,239,628 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	41.45 36.68	41.44 36.56	40.79 36.37	38.99 35.93	39.30 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	1,408,212 1,449,244	1,574,849 1,475,986	3,737,142 1,563,078	2,994,413 1,721,954	2,957,534 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	18,670.00 22,725	19,267.00 23,018.5	38,688.00 24,503.48	30,875.00 25,026.5	22,264.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	75.43 64.67	81.74 64.53	96.60 65.06	96.99 68.97	132.84 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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