As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA

CMS id: 170122
929 N. ST. FRANCIS, WICHITA KS 67214. County: SEDGWICK
System: VIA CHRISTI HEALTH
CBSA: Wichita, KS

The 666-bed, acute-care hospital had $-6,536,718 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 7.88381% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 9.83% 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	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	491 118	491 118	461 119.5	426 118	441 119
Total beds Median	658 162	658 162	650 162	613 162	666 163.5
FTEs Median	2,952.70 788.06	2,723.52 793.42	2,797.66 806.03	2,528.84 787.61	2,641.17 804.34

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	536,780,504 150,932,746	560,457,582 158,950,878	571,544,477 168,696,998	574,093,370 163,454,693	627,769,236 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	523,041,362 149,311,209	501,277,263 156,110,414	538,471,886 164,890,568	582,176,153 166,516,854	634,305,954 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	13,739,142 -964,173	59,180,319 -643,601.5	33,072,591 -116,254	-8,082,783 -5,025,862	-6,536,718 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	2.56% -0.62	10.56% -0.29	5.79% 0.18	-1.41% -5.07	-1.04% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA 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	27,159,409 5,089,215	29,516,616 4,572,541	27,709,046 5,268,134	39,855,576 13,092,619	60,865,968 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	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	27,159,409	29,516,616	27,709,046	39,855,576	60,865,968
Total income ? Median	40,898,551 6,586,430	88,696,935 6,767,106	60,781,637 8,419,950	31,772,793 8,094,175	54,329,250 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	94,296 146,289.5	287,244 164,857	231,046 89,880.5	231,452 106,761	38,589 31,473.5
Net income Median	40,804,255 6,043,842	88,409,691 5,845,112	60,550,591 7,606,259	31,541,341 7,283,041	54,290,661 14,957,241
Net margin Median	7.23557% 4.62%	14.98535% 4.42%	10.10434% 5.16%	5.13745% 5.2%	7.88381% 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 VIA CHRISTI HOSPITAL WICHITA 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	148,486,595 23,241,334	152,089,206 23,709,545	154,670,581 24,248,380	147,497,687 22,858,541	156,575,944 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	145,164,619 21,577,146	148,969,243 22,041,594	151,139,421 22,722,063	143,323,666 21,570,441	152,812,029 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	3,321,976 1,845,420	3,119,963 1,757,392	3,531,160 1,738,842	4,174,021 1,510,463	3,763,915 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	32,535,788 11,160,864	30,618,759 11,987,345	33,346,372 12,926,866	31,350,738 11,884,480	33,150,229 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	32,535,788 10,918,923	30,618,759 11,706,976	33,346,372 12,615,917	31,350,738 11,458,116	33,150,229 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	17,914,799 3,284,314	17,652,859 3,250,551	17,664,650 3,386,837	16,750,608 3,360,806	19,285,007 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	2,712,093 594,888	5,349,058 595,761	5,509,426 577,894	4,490,738 542,168	5,128,878 549,667
Outlier Median	5,223,868 582,572	3,902,555 538,116	309,763 212,434	264,126 126,559	238,913 139,139

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	42,690,384 2,654,636	36,517,509 2,940,659	52,732,880 3,380,215	50,099,662 3,488,738	51,207,760 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	51,354,756 5,147,790	49,545,328 5,337,617	61,063,985 5,711,082	59,611,541 5,923,418	62,362,788 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	9.82% 3.24	9.88% 3.12	11.34% 3.21	10.24% 3.3	9.83% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	51,354,756 9,489,989	49,545,328 9,424,297	61,063,985 10,120,158	59,611,541 11,171,337	62,362,788 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	164,301,120 52,142,039	155,997,340 54,485,252	156,246,142 57,395,589	165,713,578 58,830,919	171,106,987 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	31.41 36.68	31.12 36.56	29.02 36.37	28.46 35.93	26.98 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	9,626,178 1,251,927	9,975,607 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	11,149,756 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	11,478,102 1,449,244	12,266,523 1,475,986	11,378,619 1,563,078	10,993,332 1,721,954	18,490,567 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	297,880.00 22,725	303,864.00 23,018.5	299,597.00 24,503.48	291,659.00 25,026.5	140,820.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	38.53 64.67	40.37 64.53	37.98 65.06	37.69 68.97	131.31 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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