As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

TIFT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 110095
901 EAST 18TH STREET, TIFTON GA 31793. County: TIFT
System: --
CBSA: Tifton, GA

The 181-bed, acute-care hospital had $-25,504,217 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 10.77554% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 8.14% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $32,310 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	161 118	161 118	161 119.5	161 118	161 119
Total beds Median	182 162	181 162	181 162	181 162	181 163.5
FTEs Median	1,427.79 788.06	1,520.21 793.42	1,576.97 806.03	1,641.16 787.61	1,708.86 804.34

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	366,941,535 150,932,746	387,820,724 158,950,878	371,237,711 168,696,998	355,815,874 163,454,693	363,400,796 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	330,418,508 149,311,209	364,900,754 156,110,414	372,647,825 164,890,568	394,164,155 166,516,854	388,905,013 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	36,523,027 -964,173	22,919,970 -643,601.5	-1,410,114 -116,254	-38,348,281 -5,025,862	-25,504,217 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	9.95% -0.62	5.91% -0.29	-0.38% 0.18	-10.78% -5.07	-7.02% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for TIFT REGIONAL 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	28,590,619 5,089,215	27,257,679 4,572,541	28,224,371 5,268,134	75,257,190 13,092,619	72,574,473 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	1,417,290 199,009	1,368,363 206,870.5	1,871,196 194,343	4,342,831 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	24,092,466 299,524	20,975,604 188,688.5	21,058,549 370,813	28,294,244 309,361.5	60,204,523 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	16,327	13,956	46,375	22,839	14,691
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	984,082	1,043,766	1,344,339	1,344,311	1,171,110
⊳ 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	1,437,882	1,420,148	1,399,620	1,028,624	957,965
⊳ 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	1,643,829	2,112,015	5,238,845	4,508,545
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	0	0	0	0	16,229
⊳ 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	2,059,862	743,086	895,110	37,457,131	1,358,579
Total income ? Median	65,113,646 6,586,430	50,177,649 6,767,106	26,814,257 8,419,950	36,908,909 8,094,175	47,070,256 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	2,027,377 146,289.5	1,926,782 164,857	3,823,092 89,880.5	2,705,783 106,761	91,547 31,473.5
Net income Median	63,086,269 6,043,842	48,250,867 5,845,112	22,991,165 7,606,259	34,203,126 7,283,041	46,978,709 14,957,241
Net margin Median	15.94972% 4.62%	11.62452% 4.42%	5.75553% 5.16%	7.93442% 5.2%	10.77554% 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 TIFT REGIONAL 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	29,428,397 23,241,334	30,503,903 23,709,545	30,441,710 24,248,380	30,030,604 22,858,541	28,596,902 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	29,428,397 21,577,146	30,503,903 22,041,594	30,441,710 22,722,063	30,030,604 21,570,441	28,596,902 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	27,582,353 11,160,864	27,890,102 11,987,345	28,051,727 12,926,866	24,889,135 11,884,480	22,482,577 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	27,582,353 10,918,923	27,890,102 11,706,976	28,051,727 12,615,917	24,889,135 11,458,116	22,482,577 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	949,370 594,888	1,011,346 595,761	867,281 577,894	801,366 542,168	704,675 549,667
Outlier Median	1,631,583 582,572	984,789 538,116	195,357 212,434	313,161 126,559	224,369 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	44,545 3,662,910	92,952 3,730,911	2,299,060 4,081,319	78,917 4,643,908	32,310 4,389,147
Charity care Median	17,292,106 2,654,636	22,238,763 2,940,659	20,742,809 3,380,215	20,517,138 3,488,738	19,750,110 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	26,281,079 5,147,790	33,109,667 5,337,617	31,723,369 5,711,082	36,940,991 5,923,418	31,654,377 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	7.95% 3.24	9.07% 3.12	8.51% 3.21	9.37% 3.3	8.14% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	26,325,624 9,489,989	33,202,619 9,424,297	34,022,429 10,120,158	37,019,908 11,171,337	31,686,687 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	141,069,943 52,142,039	155,680,258 54,485,252	158,458,360 57,395,589	163,739,258 58,830,919	156,676,711 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	42.69 36.68	42.66 36.56	42.52 36.37	41.54 35.93	40.29 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	1,610,968 1,449,244	3,629,765 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	4,992,202 1,721,954	6,306,818 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	31,533.00 22,725	66,105.00 23,018.5	0.00 24,503.48	93,409.11 25,026.5	96,863.96 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	51.09 64.67	54.91 64.53	0.00 65.06	53.44 68.97	65.11 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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