As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PALM BAY HOSPITAL

CMS id: 100316
1425 MALABAR ROAD NE, PALM BAY FL 32907. County: BREVARD
System: HEALTH FIRST INC
CBSA: Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL

The 120-bed, acute-care hospital had $9,360,930 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 12.72891% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 9.45% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $8,319,014 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	108 118	108 118	108 119.5	108 118	108 119
Total beds Median	138 162	138 162	120 162	120 162	120 163.5
FTEs Median	545.92 788.06	541.73 793.42	543.94 806.03	516.02 787.61	537.14 804.34

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	93,580,427 150,932,746	106,075,758 158,950,878	104,733,732 168,696,998	100,266,350 163,454,693	128,301,509 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	96,287,160 149,311,209	105,984,210 156,110,414	108,666,476 164,890,568	110,488,970 166,516,854	118,940,579 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-2,706,733 -964,173	91,548 -643,601.5	-3,932,744 -116,254	-10,222,620 -5,025,862	9,360,930 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-2.89% -0.62	0.09% -0.29	-3.75% 0.18	-10.20% -5.07	7.30% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PALM BAY 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	9,478,363 5,089,215	4,162,916 4,572,541	3,344,383 5,268,134	5,059,880 13,092,619	8,505,217 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	501	503	495	449	427
⊳ 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	-2,763	-4,323	-5,583	-4,852	13,141
⊳ 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	59,378	58,810	56,606	30,112	43,215
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	337,050	364,572	361,542	379,667	381,557
⊳ 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	9,084,197	3,743,354	2,931,323	4,654,504	8,066,877
Total income ? Median	6,771,630 6,586,430	4,254,464 6,767,106	-588,361 8,419,950	-5,162,740 8,094,175	17,866,147 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	10 146,289.5	44 164,857	0 89,880.5	379,337 106,761	452,144 31,473.5
Net income Median	6,771,620 6,043,842	4,254,420 5,845,112	-588,361 7,606,259	-5,542,077 7,283,041	17,414,003 14,957,241
Net margin Median	6.57064% 4.62%	3.85928% 4.42%	-0.54438% 5.16%	-5.26182% 5.2%	12.72891% 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 PALM BAY 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	19,994,888 23,241,334	21,765,249 23,709,545	20,831,915 24,248,380	20,098,483 22,858,541	22,993,096 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	19,116,987 21,577,146	21,609,287 22,041,594	20,831,915 22,722,063	20,098,483 21,570,441	22,993,096 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	877,901 1,845,420	155,962 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	5,875,664 11,160,864	6,655,707 11,987,345	7,119,900 12,926,866	7,127,662 11,884,480	6,647,500 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	5,875,664 10,918,923	6,655,707 11,706,976	7,119,900 12,615,917	7,127,662 11,458,116	6,647,500 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	163,020 594,888	132,498 595,761	123,678 577,894	183,090 542,168	161,577 549,667
Outlier Median	801,219 582,572	642,942 538,116	90,107 212,434	61,087 126,559	188,043 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	463,030 3,662,910	6,297,757 3,730,911	7,535,520 4,081,319	7,752,830 4,643,908	8,319,014 4,389,147
Charity care Median	12,198,344 2,654,636	13,377,996 2,940,659	10,918,665 3,380,215	10,283,642 3,488,738	9,710,261 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	13,976,315 5,147,790	14,270,561 5,337,617	12,362,444 5,711,082	12,260,146 5,923,418	11,243,808 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	14.52% 3.24	13.46% 3.12	11.38% 3.21	11.10% 3.3	9.45% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	14,439,345 9,489,989	20,568,318 9,424,297	19,897,964 10,120,158	20,012,976 11,171,337	19,562,822 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	41,650,342 52,142,039	43,835,565 54,485,252	43,879,036 57,395,589	44,294,811 58,830,919	39,055,851 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	43.26 36.68	41.36 36.56	40.38 36.37	40.09 35.93	32.84 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	466,231 1,449,244	568,092 1,475,986	74,490 1,563,078	138,467 1,721,954	1,175,985 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	6,353.00 22,725	8,659.00 23,018.5	1,206.00 24,503.48	3,071.00 25,026.5	12,638.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	73.39 64.67	65.61 64.53	61.77 65.06	45.09 68.97	93.05 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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