As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SOUTH

CMS id: 150128
1402 EAST COUNTY LINE ROAD SOUTH, INDIANAPOLIS IN 46227. County: MARION
System: COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK
CBSA: Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN

The 169-bed, acute-care hospital had $73,204,654 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 25.42373% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.52% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $8,466,584 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	158 118	157 118	157 119.5	157 118	157 119
Total beds Median	170 162	169 162	169 162	169 162	169 163.5
FTEs Median	859.55 788.06	877.40 793.42	911.33 806.03	915.95 787.61	899.02 804.34

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	251,090,153 150,932,746	268,306,223 158,950,878	294,419,776 168,696,998	274,040,451 163,454,693	323,967,557 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	193,624,522 149,311,209	203,651,124 156,110,414	234,002,345 164,890,568	230,568,659 166,516,854	250,762,903 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	57,465,631 -964,173	64,655,099 -643,601.5	60,417,431 -116,254	43,471,792 -5,025,862	73,204,654 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	22.89% -0.62	24.10% -0.29	20.52% 0.18	15.86% -5.07	22.60% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SOUTH 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	1,643,609 5,089,215	3,418,258 4,572,541	3,671,817 5,268,134	23,031,986 13,092,619	12,282,716 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	3,351 199,009	166,726 206,870.5	0 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	829,321 370,813	8,521,863 309,361.5	1,174 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	12,834	11,797	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	1,265,229	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	0	0	1,357,812	998,116	1,119,305
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	8,254	0	0	8,224	0
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	0	0	0	46,800	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	541,098	797,642	698,410	748,509
⊳ 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	1,635,355	1,595,746	508,519	12,758,573	10,413,728
Total income ? Median	59,109,240 6,586,430	68,073,357 6,767,106	64,089,248 8,419,950	66,503,778 8,094,175	85,487,370 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	43,500 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	59,109,240 6,043,842	68,073,357 5,845,112	64,045,748 7,606,259	66,503,778 7,283,041	85,487,370 14,957,241
Net margin Median	23.38795% 4.62%	25.05235% 4.42%	21.48526% 5.16%	22.38638% 5.2%	25.42373% 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 COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SOUTH 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	34,996,578 23,241,334	34,888,709 23,709,545	34,691,540 24,248,380	31,113,762 22,858,541	33,330,906 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	34,996,578 21,577,146	34,888,709 22,041,594	34,691,540 22,722,063	31,113,762 21,570,441	33,330,906 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	14,584,457 11,160,864	15,878,079 11,987,345	16,425,429 12,926,866	13,467,032 11,884,480	16,157,939 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	14,584,457 10,918,923	15,878,079 11,706,976	16,425,429 12,615,917	13,467,032 11,458,116	16,157,939 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	565,374 3,284,314	870,571 3,250,551	1,033,055 3,386,837	1,021,958 3,360,806	1,143,960 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	659,886 594,888	729,717 595,761	728,209 577,894	679,302 542,168	806,288 549,667
Outlier Median	626,573 582,572	1,037,200 538,116	119,988 212,434	98,884 126,559	122,974 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	14,327,283 3,662,910	30,402,439 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	11,141,366 4,643,908	8,466,584 4,389,147
Charity care Median	5,881,813 2,654,636	5,524,088 2,940,659	6,849,686 3,380,215	5,303,380 3,488,738	3,553,482 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	6,531,335 5,147,790	5,838,470 5,337,617	11,205,090 5,711,082	9,149,681 5,923,418	6,317,516 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.37% 3.24	2.87% 3.12	4.79% 3.21	3.97% 3.3	2.52% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	20,858,618 9,489,989	36,240,909 9,424,297	11,205,090 10,120,158	20,291,047 11,171,337	14,784,100 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	59,255,377 52,142,039	61,704,432 54,485,252	65,210,982 57,395,589	68,215,998 58,830,919	72,647,184 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	30.60 36.68	30.30 36.56	27.87 36.37	29.59 35.93	28.97 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	673,851 1,449,244	949,566 1,475,986	1,260,114 1,563,078	1,544,924 1,721,954	4,783,557 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	6,952.13 22,725	12,040.00 23,018.5	10,962.00 24,503.48	14,994.00 25,026.5	60,180.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	96.93 64.67	78.87 64.53	114.95 65.06	103.04 68.97	79.49 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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