As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

MERCY HEALTH LOURDES HOSPITAL LLC

CMS id: 180102
1530 LONE OAK ROAD, PADUCAH KY 42003. County: MCCRACKEN
System: MERCY HEALTH PARTNERS
CBSA: Paducah, KY-IL

The 326-bed, acute-care hospital had $37,057,970 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 20.66273% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.80% 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	239 118	239 118	239 119.5	239 118	239 119
Total beds Median	316 162	316 162	326 162	316 162	326 163.5
FTEs Median	950.61 788.06	992.74 793.42	973.85 806.03	928.47 787.61	947.67 804.34

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	223,970,055 150,932,746	232,263,327 158,950,878	248,057,008 168,696,998	263,865,842 163,454,693	283,110,867 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	206,747,800 149,311,209	215,103,021 156,110,414	228,141,248 164,890,568	238,553,848 166,516,854	246,052,897 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	17,222,255 -964,173	17,160,306 -643,601.5	19,915,760 -116,254	25,311,994 -5,025,862	37,057,970 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	7.69% -0.62	7.39% -0.29	8.03% 0.18	9.59% -5.07	13.09% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for MERCY HEALTH LOURDES HOSPITAL LLC 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	15,190,847 5,089,215	-677,331 4,572,541	17,575,420 5,268,134	29,307,126 13,092,619	27,023,549 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	13,124,698 309,361.5	21,391,331 375,329
⊳ 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	494,393	532,309
⊳ 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	34,233	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	399,172	395,507
⊳ 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	15,190,847	-677,331	17,575,420	15,254,630	4,704,402
Total income ? Median	32,413,102 6,586,430	16,482,975 6,767,106	37,491,180 8,419,950	54,619,120 8,094,175	64,081,519 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	716 106,761	-716 31,473.5
Net income Median	32,413,102 6,043,842	16,482,975 5,845,112	37,491,180 7,606,259	54,618,404 7,283,041	64,082,235 14,957,241
Net margin Median	13.55284% 4.62%	7.11743% 4.42%	14.11393% 5.16%	18.63010% 5.2%	20.66273% 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 MERCY HEALTH LOURDES HOSPITAL LLC 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	52,178,862 23,241,334	51,986,525 23,709,545	49,984,283 24,248,380	44,033,703 22,858,541	44,498,911 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	45,160,057 21,577,146	45,637,142 22,041,594	43,808,435 22,722,063	37,941,022 21,570,441	38,575,572 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	1,240,135 1,845,420	664,096 1,757,392	565,691 1,738,842	514,708 1,510,463	441,426 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	5,778,670 3,535,627	5,685,287 3,746,588	5,610,157 3,782,288	5,577,973 3,865,578	5,481,913 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	28,199,965 11,160,864	29,622,786 11,987,345	34,966,815 12,926,866	27,095,104 11,884,480	21,243,864 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	22,222,174 10,918,923	23,924,269 11,706,976	28,926,790 12,615,917	21,727,401 11,458,116	21,243,864 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	5,977,791 1,282,808	5,698,517 1,407,728	6,040,025 1,341,512	5,367,703 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	1,161,436 594,888	1,254,744 595,761	1,259,053 577,894	1,174,193 542,168	1,067,067 549,667
Outlier Median	941,196 582,572	666,314 538,116	243,943 212,434	408,883 126,559	67,057 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	5,591,439 3,662,910	4,111,810 3,730,911	2,042,518 4,081,319	267,337 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,302,850 2,654,636	2,631,953 2,940,659	2,672,430 3,380,215	1,867,371 3,488,738	1,744,053 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	9,571,804 5,147,790	5,662,428 5,337,617	6,057,878 5,711,082	5,537,882 5,923,418	4,439,392 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	4.63% 3.24	2.63% 3.12	2.66% 3.21	2.32% 3.3	1.80% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	15,163,243 9,489,989	9,774,238 9,424,297	8,100,396 10,120,158	5,805,219 11,171,337	4,439,392 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	58,534,967 52,142,039	61,093,914 54,485,252	59,782,875 57,395,589	59,879,870 58,830,919	64,681,954 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	28.31 36.68	28.40 36.56	26.20 36.37	25.10 35.93	26.29 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	97,936 1,449,244	41,240 1,475,986	495,469 1,563,078	41,285 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	2,575.84 22,725	1,125.00 23,018.5	7,434.41 24,503.48	542.60 25,026.5	0.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	38.02 64.67	36.66 64.53	66.65 65.06	76.09 68.97	0.00 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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