As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PHOEBE SUMTER MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 110044
126 HWY 280 WEST, AMERICUS GA 31719. County: SUMTER
System: PHOEBE PUTNEY HEALTH SYSTEMS
CBSA: Americus, GA

The 54-bed, acute-care hospital had $-8,864,979 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 13.45502% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 7.30% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $0 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	gov	gov	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	44 118	44 118	44 119.5	44 118	44 119
Total beds Median	54 162	54 162	54 162	54 162	54 163.5
FTEs Median	349.00 788.06	345.95 793.42	362.15 806.03	363.51 787.61	361.07 804.34

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	72,150,532 150,932,746	75,294,679 158,950,878	78,071,113 168,696,998	82,800,737 163,454,693	88,269,998 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	67,432,798 149,311,209	72,705,183 156,110,414	76,276,848 164,890,568	82,863,083 166,516,854	97,134,977 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	4,717,734 -964,173	2,589,496 -643,601.5	1,794,265 -116,254	-62,346 -5,025,862	-8,864,979 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	6.54% -0.62	3.44% -0.29	2.30% 0.18	-0.08% -5.07	-10.04% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PHOEBE SUMTER 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	10,697,002 5,089,215	4,576,717 4,572,541	7,736,800 5,268,134	6,447,188 13,092,619	23,966,416 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	751,844 224,999	1,501,325 199,009	1,755,327 206,870.5	1,611,051 194,343	2,318,936 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	635,322 299,524	1,761,842 188,688.5	2,109,395 370,813	2,861,168 309,361.5	9,232,086 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	4,301	5,318	4,263	1,025	1,211
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	287	0	8,800	120
⊳ 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	376,758	377,353	404,408	354,397	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	436,131	321,810	499,830	574,592	2,961,996
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	1,404	284	253	1,259	332
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	1,290	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	499	6,875	7,663	6,875
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	492,318	542,497	577,494	924,765	1,018,732
⊳ 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	7,997,634	65,502	2,378,955	102,468	8,426,128
Total income ? Median	15,414,736 6,586,430	7,166,213 6,767,106	9,531,065 8,419,950	6,384,842 8,094,175	15,101,437 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	15,414,736 6,043,842	7,166,213 5,845,112	9,531,065 7,606,259	6,384,842 7,283,041	15,101,437 14,957,241
Net margin Median	18.60615% 4.62%	8.97219% 4.42%	11.10744% 5.16%	7.15405% 5.2%	13.45502% 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 PHOEBE SUMTER 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	6,937,354 23,241,334	7,556,760 23,709,545	8,247,444 24,248,380	9,494,407 22,858,541	7,165,086 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	6,937,354 21,577,146	7,556,760 22,041,594	8,247,444 22,722,063	9,494,407 21,570,441	7,165,086 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	0 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	0 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	6,094,391 11,160,864	6,469,356 11,987,345	5,968,421 12,926,866	5,992,866 11,884,480	5,665,750 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	6,065,518 10,918,923	6,378,277 11,706,976	5,943,712 12,615,917	5,953,917 11,458,116	5,651,227 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	28,873 618,038	91,079 697,279	24,709 690,232	38,949 684,010	14,523 670,558
⊳ 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	160,584 594,888	160,706 595,761	153,278 577,894	151,798 542,168	120,940 549,667
Outlier Median	293,527 582,572	135,370 538,116	284,238 212,434	57,264 126,559	56,544 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	0 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,474,655 2,654,636	3,845,840 2,940,659	4,680,653 3,380,215	3,862,797 3,488,738	4,024,403 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	3,637,709 5,147,790	5,927,616 5,337,617	6,488,720 5,711,082	6,701,914 5,923,418	7,095,127 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	5.39% 3.24	8.15% 3.12	8.51% 3.21	8.09% 3.3	7.30% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	3,637,709 9,489,989	5,927,616 9,424,297	6,488,720 10,120,158	6,701,914 11,171,337	7,095,127 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	18,741,758 52,142,039	18,910,687 54,485,252	20,350,080 57,395,589	20,845,694 58,830,919	22,713,931 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	27.79 36.68	26.01 36.56	26.68 36.37	25.16 35.93	23.38 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	525,668 1,449,244	915,072 1,475,986	1,885,950 1,563,078	2,337,147 1,721,954	3,917,186 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	11,043.81 22,725	16,932.00 23,018.5	48,858.00 24,503.48	34,756.00 25,026.5	45,479.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	47.60 64.67	54.04 64.53	38.60 65.06	67.24 68.97	86.13 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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