As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

ST. MARYS HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 060023
2635 NORTH 7TH STREET, GRAND JUNCTION CO 81502. County: MESA
System: SCL HEALTH SYSTEM
CBSA: Grand Junction, CO

The 277-bed, acute-care hospital had $-23,860,745 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 7.46164% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 2.63% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $21,070,952 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	--
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	--
Acute beds Median	197 118	195 118	195 119.5	194 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	283 162	281 162	281 162	277 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	1,755.68 788.06	1,860.16 793.42	1,815.73 806.03	1,937.28 787.61	-- 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	464,051,723 150,932,746	467,411,335 158,950,878	462,647,783 168,696,998	455,794,368 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	455,000,073 149,311,209	430,181,193 156,110,414	475,415,310 164,890,568	479,655,113 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	9,051,650 -964,173	37,230,142 -643,601.5	-12,767,527 -116,254	-23,860,745 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	1.95% -0.62	7.97% -0.29	-2.76% 0.18	-5.23% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for ST. MARYS HOSPITAL & 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	39,307,167 5,089,215	44,085,530 4,572,541	67,340,019 5,268,134	85,659,457 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	31 206,870.5	0 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	12,582,674 188,688.5	13,193,329 370,813	16,372,134 309,361.5	-- 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	--
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,580,334	1,673,790	1,733,851	1,245,766	--
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	151	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	745	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	1,184,862 1,173,286	683,229 1,987,202	-- 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	37,712,887	29,829,066	51,227,946	67,358,328	--
Total income ? Median	48,358,817 6,586,430	81,315,672 6,767,106	54,572,492 8,419,950	61,798,712 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	47,123,470 164,857	21,890,221 89,880.5	21,397,394 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	48,358,817 6,043,842	34,192,202 5,845,112	32,682,271 7,606,259	40,401,318 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	9.60722% 4.62%	6.68473% 4.42%	6.16661% 5.16%	7.46164% 5.2%	--% 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 ST. MARYS HOSPITAL & 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	80,863,949 23,241,334	84,026,049 23,709,545	80,878,365 24,248,380	67,344,070 22,858,541	-- 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	74,431,411 21,577,146	74,686,321 22,041,594	70,616,924 22,722,063	60,051,224 21,570,441	-- 22,140,684
⊳ Swingbeds ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act payments (TEFRA) ⊳ Median	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	-- 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	6,432,538 3,535,627	9,339,728 3,746,588	10,261,441 3,782,288	7,292,846 3,865,578	-- 3,983,889
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	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	-- 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	32,986,938 11,160,864	34,780,024 11,987,345	36,189,404 12,926,866	34,811,571 11,884,480	-- 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	32,986,938 10,918,923	34,780,024 11,706,976	36,189,404 12,615,917	34,811,571 11,458,116	-- 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 1,282,808	0 1,407,728	0 1,341,512	0 1,407,046	-- 1,476,867
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	0 618,038	0 697,279	0 690,232	0 684,010	-- 670,558
⊳ Other federally qualified health clinics ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --

Other payments

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Graduate Medical Education (GME) Median	3,318,593 3,284,314	2,521,154 3,250,551	3,336,603 3,386,837	2,785,606 3,360,806	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	1,643,736 594,888	2,624,354 595,761	2,460,751 577,894	1,890,215 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	4,409,974 582,572	6,123,522 538,116	4,973,802 212,434	1,231,437 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	21,951,167 3,662,910	20,164,824 3,730,911	27,755,788 4,081,319	21,070,952 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	4,512,016 2,654,636	6,564,490 2,940,659	6,434,743 3,380,215	10,221,635 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	8,013,353 5,147,790	9,093,778 5,337,617	9,771,718 5,711,082	12,618,083 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.76% 3.24	2.11% 3.12	2.06% 3.21	2.63% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	29,964,520 9,489,989	29,258,602 9,424,297	37,527,506 10,120,158	33,689,035 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	139,418,114 52,142,039	180,011,813 54,485,252	145,838,183 57,395,589	150,275,479 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	31.66 36.68	42.81 36.56	33.32 36.37	33.73 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	4,477,077 2,598,592	4,894,080 2,686,824	6,811,337 2,753,773	6,906,219 2,937,156	-- 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	0 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	-- 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	2,979,111 1,449,244	3,374,610 1,475,986	2,403,747 1,563,078	2,406,627 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	38,475.58 22,725	55,674.27 23,018.5	36,414.06 24,503.48	36,462.06 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	77.43 64.67	60.61 64.53	66.01 65.06	66.00 68.97	-- 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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