As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

MERCY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 060013
1010 THREE SPRINGS BLVD., DURANGO CO 81301. County: LA PLATA
System: CENTURA HEALTH
CBSA: Rural Colorado

The 71-bed, acute-care hospital had $21,447,462 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 18.04197% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.13% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $396,759 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	71 118	71 118	71 119.5	60 118	60 119
Total beds Median	82 162	82 162	82 162	82 162	71 163.5
FTEs Median	954.73 788.06	951.59 793.42	907.42 806.03	828.06 787.61	809.31 804.34

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	233,897,108 150,932,746	245,353,502 158,950,878	241,399,153 168,696,998	221,233,908 163,454,693	229,573,556 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	208,874,845 149,311,209	210,878,996 156,110,414	212,023,112 164,890,568	204,164,671 166,516,854	208,126,094 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	25,022,263 -964,173	34,474,506 -643,601.5	29,376,041 -116,254	17,069,237 -5,025,862	21,447,462 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	10.70% -0.62	14.05% -0.29	12.17% 0.18	7.72% -5.07	9.34% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for MERCY REGIONAL 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	4,746,564 5,089,215	6,401,234 4,572,541	5,657,098 5,268,134	20,180,684 13,092,619	24,204,276 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	4,746,564	6,401,234	5,657,098	20,180,684	24,204,276
Total income ? Median	29,768,827 6,586,430	40,875,740 6,767,106	35,033,139 8,419,950	37,249,921 8,094,175	45,651,738 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	427,035 146,289.5	-158,868 164,857	725,947 89,880.5	275,402 106,761	-134,773 31,473.5
Net income Median	29,341,792 6,043,842	41,034,608 5,845,112	34,307,192 7,606,259	36,974,519 7,283,041	45,786,511 14,957,241
Net margin Median	12.29523% 4.62%	16.29944% 4.42%	13.88639% 5.16%	15.31578% 5.2%	18.04197% 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 MERCY REGIONAL 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	28,297,029 23,241,334	28,956,231 23,709,545	26,970,962 24,248,380	24,636,166 22,858,541	24,156,258 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	28,297,029 21,577,146	28,956,231 22,041,594	26,970,962 22,722,063	24,636,166 21,570,441	24,156,258 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	20,234,754 11,160,864	22,365,123 11,987,345	23,153,102 12,926,866	22,476,034 11,884,480	23,784,476 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	20,234,754 10,918,923	22,365,123 11,706,976	23,153,102 12,615,917	22,476,034 11,458,116	23,784,476 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	531,325 594,888	551,756 595,761	522,260 577,894	477,579 542,168	457,993 549,667
Outlier Median	3,444,574 582,572	4,171,577 538,116	2,710,095 212,434	593,205 126,559	880,768 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	4,318,230 3,662,910	2,869,571 3,730,911	436,153 4,081,319	55,792 4,643,908	396,759 4,389,147
Charity care Median	980,470 2,654,636	1,975,637 2,940,659	2,541,686 3,380,215	3,297,654 3,488,738	3,873,367 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	1,388,757 5,147,790	3,244,171 5,337,617	3,933,555 5,711,082	4,615,874 5,923,418	4,440,971 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	0.66% 3.24	1.54% 3.12	1.86% 3.21	2.26% 3.3	2.13% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	5,706,987 9,489,989	6,113,742 9,424,297	4,369,708 10,120,158	4,671,666 11,171,337	4,837,730 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	79,461,637 52,142,039	83,643,840 54,485,252	80,602,575 57,395,589	76,826,425 58,830,919	73,253,357 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.51 36.68	40.66 36.56	39.23 36.37	37.63 35.93	35.20 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	300,353 1,449,244	302,928 1,475,986	388,202 1,563,078	0 1,721,954	795,567 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	4,565.00 22,725	4,274.00 23,018.5	5,742.00 24,503.48	0.00 25,026.5	12,474.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	65.79 64.67	70.88 64.53	67.61 65.06	0.00 68.97	63.78 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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