As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL

CMS id: 060028
1375 EAST 19TH AVENUE, DENVER CO 80218. County: DENVER
System: SCL HEALTH
CBSA: Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO

The 361-bed, acute-care hospital had $-16,287,888 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 6.30175% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 2.82% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $28,255,596 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	296 118	296 118	296 119.5	296 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	361 162	361 162	361 162	361 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	2,066.36 788.06	2,116.72 793.42	2,058.09 806.03	2,046.21 787.61	-- 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	565,485,431 150,932,746	579,798,588 158,950,878	596,408,050 168,696,998	552,339,265 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	518,158,620 149,311,209	498,075,784 156,110,414	527,995,828 164,890,568	568,627,153 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	47,326,811 -964,173	81,722,804 -643,601.5	68,412,222 -116,254	-16,287,888 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	8.37% -0.62	14.10% -0.29	11.47% 0.18	-2.95% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SAINT JOSEPH 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	17,081,000 5,089,215	3,912,355 4,572,541	38,682,891 5,268,134	77,030,013 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	688 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	2,970,641 299,524	5,234,228 188,688.5	4,983,533 370,813	7,942,544 309,361.5	-- 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	1,911,086	1,893,712	2,032,318	1,222,019	--
⊳ 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	350	0	982	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	8,642	7,585	4,711	5,963	--
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	4,521,432	4,975,377	5,519,391	5,717,119	--
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	-- 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	7,668,849	-8,198,547	26,141,956	62,141,680	--
Total income ? Median	64,407,811 6,586,430	85,635,159 6,767,106	107,095,113 8,419,950	60,742,125 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	31,870,624 164,857	22,392,113 89,880.5	21,080,835 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	64,407,811 6,043,842	53,764,535 5,845,112	84,703,000 7,606,259	39,661,290 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	11.05587% 4.62%	9.21081% 4.42%	13.33715% 5.16%	6.30175% 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 SAINT JOSEPH 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	39,559,932 23,241,334	40,416,041 23,709,545	41,321,560 24,248,380	37,484,719 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	39,559,932 21,577,146	40,416,041 22,041,594	41,321,560 22,722,063	37,484,719 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	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	0 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	9,486,184 11,160,864	10,053,996 11,987,345	10,755,760 12,926,866	11,166,902 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	9,486,184 10,918,923	10,053,996 11,706,976	10,755,760 12,615,917	11,166,902 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	6,281,664 3,284,314	5,968,524 3,250,551	6,234,350 3,386,837	6,117,654 3,360,806	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	791,709 594,888	738,223 595,761	816,534 577,894	623,374 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	2,801,777 582,572	2,673,050 538,116	362,307 212,434	323,687 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	27,705,680 3,662,910	18,313,069 3,730,911	27,158,306 4,081,319	28,255,596 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	9,854,643 2,654,636	9,874,182 2,940,659	12,186,323 3,380,215	14,421,437 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	12,100,110 5,147,790	11,253,532 5,337,617	14,293,464 5,711,082	16,023,309 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.34% 3.24	2.26% 3.12	2.71% 3.21	2.82% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	39,805,790 9,489,989	29,566,601 9,424,297	41,451,770 10,120,158	44,278,905 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	152,941,147 52,142,039	166,242,005 54,485,252	166,730,865 57,395,589	168,973,518 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	30.28 36.68	33.95 36.56	32.37 36.37	32.73 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 2,598,592	0 2,686,824	0 2,753,773	0 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	3,356,849 1,449,244	4,022,980 1,475,986	3,246,393 1,563,078	3,287,661 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	50,751.24 22,725	58,096.89 23,018.5	48,222.65 24,503.48	48,222.65 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	66.14 64.67	69.25 64.53	67.32 65.06	68.18 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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