As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

THE WILLIAM W. BACKUS HOSPITAL

CMS id: 070024
326 WASHINGTON STREET, NORWICH CT 6360. County: NEW LONDON
System: HARTFORD HEALTHCARE
CBSA: Norwich-New London, CT

The 183-bed, acute-care hospital had $-10,127,657 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 5.38556% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.61% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $9,794,528 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	153 118	153 118	153 119.5	153 118	153 119
Total beds Median	183 162	183 162	183 162	183 162	183 163.5
FTEs Median	1,418.50 788.06	1,405.71 793.42	1,391.79 806.03	1,424.30 787.61	1,458.66 804.34

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	303,527,476 150,932,746	304,469,457 158,950,878	351,669,316 168,696,998	345,928,741 163,454,693	383,743,339 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	281,671,153 149,311,209	308,120,930 156,110,414	343,018,319 164,890,568	371,222,759 166,516,854	393,870,996 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	21,856,323 -964,173	-3,651,473 -643,601.5	8,650,997 -116,254	-25,294,018 -5,025,862	-10,127,657 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	7.20% -0.62	-1.20% -0.29	2.46% 0.18	-7.31% -5.07	-2.64% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for THE WILLIAM W. BACKUS 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	26,611,031 5,089,215	11,684,157 4,572,541	11,889,697 5,268,134	20,628,704 13,092,619	32,547,249 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	1,497,777 199,009	581,314 206,870.5	423,582 194,343	178,598 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	122,438 299,524	36,541 188,688.5	30,681 370,813	282 309,361.5	-2,384 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	621,610	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	1,119,767	1,347,072	1,229,949	1,109,610	1,003,572
⊳ 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	51,765	11,475	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	1,709,295	2,468,112	2,883,357	2,766,206	2,776,792
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	399,310 1,017,693	225,614 983,261.5	201,554 1,173,286	228,091 1,987,202	220,180 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	22,586,846	6,097,566	6,962,842	16,100,933	28,370,491
Total income ? Median	48,467,354 6,586,430	8,032,684 6,767,106	20,540,694 8,419,950	-4,665,314 8,094,175	22,419,592 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	48,467,354 6,043,842	8,032,684 5,845,112	20,540,694 7,606,259	-4,665,314 7,283,041	22,419,592 14,957,241
Net margin Median	14.68092% 4.62%	2.54075% 4.42%	5.64989% 5.16%	-1.27274% 5.2%	5.38556% 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 THE WILLIAM W. BACKUS 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	43,030,876 23,241,334	47,810,379 23,709,545	48,983,610 24,248,380	45,990,319 22,858,541	39,961,414 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	41,273,851 21,577,146	46,063,277 22,041,594	47,122,453 22,722,063	44,721,605 21,570,441	38,849,416 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	1,757,025 1,845,420	1,747,102 1,757,392	1,861,157 1,738,842	1,268,714 1,510,463	1,111,998 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	31,051,141 11,160,864	32,368,400 11,987,345	36,923,349 12,926,866	31,034,017 11,884,480	29,148,341 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	31,051,141 10,918,923	32,368,400 11,706,976	36,923,349 12,615,917	31,034,017 11,458,116	29,148,341 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	751,094 594,888	865,706 595,761	1,011,570 577,894	1,037,001 542,168	814,652 549,667
Outlier Median	988,840 582,572	1,367,581 538,116	277,452 212,434	208,178 126,559	251,540 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	33,851,878 3,662,910	6,334,913 3,730,911	6,371,265 4,081,319	9,286,145 4,643,908	9,794,528 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,132,119 2,654,636	7,078,246 2,940,659	4,769,348 3,380,215	5,188,087 3,488,738	3,871,270 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	3,751,043 5,147,790	7,555,491 5,337,617	8,032,869 5,711,082	8,627,723 5,923,418	6,359,690 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.33% 3.24	2.45% 3.12	2.34% 3.21	2.32% 3.3	1.61% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	37,602,921 9,489,989	13,890,404 9,424,297	14,404,134 10,120,158	17,913,868 11,171,337	16,154,218 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	108,961,984 52,142,039	111,080,357 54,485,252	118,683,048 57,395,589	123,017,647 58,830,919	127,133,965 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.74 36.68	36.05 36.56	34.60 36.37	33.14 35.93	32.28 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	2,117,815 1,449,244	3,530,889 1,475,986	4,121,838 1,563,078	5,444,078 1,721,954	8,444,865 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	36,976.00 22,725	56,355.00 23,018.5	50,340.00 24,503.48	68,208.00 25,026.5	73,563.72 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	57.28 64.67	62.65 64.53	81.88 65.06	79.82 68.97	114.80 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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