As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 100220
13681 DOCTORS WAY, FORT MYERS FL 33912. County: LEE
System: LEE MEMORIAL HEALTH SYSTEM
CBSA: Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

The 699-bed, acute-care hospital had $143,963,104 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 26.24319% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 6.32% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $9,216,287 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	317 118	320 118	320 119.5	536 118	536 119
Total beds Median	349 162	356 162	431 162	647 162	699 163.5
FTEs Median	2,313.00 788.06	2,237.00 793.42	1,859.00 806.03	2,339.00 787.61	2,681.00 804.34

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	369,017,097 150,932,746	392,173,169 158,950,878	409,940,550 168,696,998	427,037,313 163,454,693	558,427,551 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	281,027,103 149,311,209	295,115,100 156,110,414	367,574,218 164,890,568	332,155,287 166,516,854	414,464,447 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	87,989,994 -964,173	97,058,069 -643,601.5	42,366,332 -116,254	94,882,026 -5,025,862	143,963,104 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	23.84% -0.62	24.75% -0.29	10.33% 0.18	22.22% -5.07	25.78% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for GULF COAST 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	3,775,829 5,089,215	2,818,285 4,572,541	4,147,462 5,268,134	2,611,037 13,092,619	3,137,690 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	104,242 299,524	174,066 188,688.5	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	3,671,587	2,644,219	4,147,462	2,611,037	3,137,690
Total income ? Median	91,765,823 6,586,430	99,876,354 6,767,106	46,513,794 8,419,950	97,493,063 8,094,175	147,100,794 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	-270,632 146,289.5	125,328 164,857	0 89,880.5	-440,228 106,761	-271,849 31,473.5
Net income Median	92,036,455 6,043,842	99,751,026 5,845,112	46,513,794 7,606,259	97,933,291 7,283,041	147,372,643 14,957,241
Net margin Median	24.68836% 4.62%	25.25397% 4.42%	11.23283% 5.16%	22.79382% 5.2%	26.24319% 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 GULF COAST 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	99,150,516 23,241,334	97,884,946 23,709,545	97,078,343 24,248,380	102,635,256 22,858,541	115,365,462 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	99,150,516 21,577,146	97,884,946 22,041,594	94,388,756 22,722,063	94,398,201 21,570,441	106,901,565 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	2,689,587 1,313,657	8,237,055 1,365,298	8,463,897 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	21,748,290 11,160,864	24,591,350 11,987,345	25,613,079 12,926,866	24,184,407 11,884,480	29,276,351 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	21,748,290 10,918,923	24,591,350 11,706,976	25,613,079 12,615,917	24,184,407 11,458,116	29,276,351 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	1,066,121 594,888	1,084,803 595,761	604,729 577,894	574,123 542,168	858,922 549,667
Outlier Median	2,023,808 582,572	2,286,651 538,116	484,555 212,434	320,065 126,559	644,291 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	13,908,685 3,662,910	10,726,037 3,730,911	9,548,103 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	9,216,287 4,389,147
Charity care Median	12,791,875 2,654,636	13,013,764 2,940,659	13,318,237 3,380,215	15,889,019 3,488,738	16,649,853 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	20,460,299 5,147,790	20,092,532 5,337,617	20,955,611 5,711,082	24,511,828 5,923,418	26,213,090 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	7.28% 3.24	6.81% 3.12	5.70% 3.21	7.38% 3.3	6.32% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	34,368,984 9,489,989	30,818,569 9,424,297	30,503,714 10,120,158	24,511,828 11,171,337	35,429,377 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	115,594,911 52,142,039	114,712,575 54,485,252	114,805,729 57,395,589	130,758,691 58,830,919	149,046,105 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	41.13 36.68	38.87 36.56	37.73 36.37	39.37 35.93	35.96 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	1,039,869 1,449,244	371,772 1,475,986	1,100,505 1,563,078	801,264 1,721,954	801,264 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	16,015.00 22,725	5,896.00 23,018.5	16,669.84 24,503.48	12,340.00 25,026.5	12,340.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	64.93 64.67	63.05 64.53	66.02 65.06	64.93 68.97	64.93 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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