As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

OCHSNER LSU HEALTH MONROE

CMS id: 190011
4864 JACKSON STREET, MONROE LA 71210. County: OUACHITA PARISH
System: OCHSNER LSU HOSPITALS
CBSA: Monroe, LA

The 120-bed, acute-care hospital had $-52,145,534 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 10.25191% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.88% 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	273	366	365
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	100 118	68 118	68 119.5	66 118	39 119
Total beds Median	151 162	119 162	119 162	117 162	120 163.5
FTEs Median	746.85 788.06	809.16 793.42	475.39 806.03	910.86 787.61	1,137.00 804.34

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	105,357,900 150,932,746	-2,576,380 158,950,878	102,647,343 168,696,998	84,830,196 163,454,693	92,716,715 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	114,547,825 149,311,209	118,744,578 156,110,414	97,103,521 164,890,568	131,414,323 166,516,854	144,862,249 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-9,189,925 -964,173	-121,320,958 -643,601.5	5,543,822 -116,254	-46,584,127 -5,025,862	-52,145,534 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-8.72% -0.62	4,708.97% -0.29	5.40% 0.18	-54.91% -5.07	-56.24% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for OCHSNER LSU HEALTH MONROE 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	4,219,478 5,089,215	123,561,022 4,572,541	8,363,188 5,268,134	61,991,551 13,092,619	68,693,197 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	188,342 224,999	60,032 199,009	4,913 206,870.5	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	233,996	66,663	32,740	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	2,913,551	3,440,924	2,460,191	4,316,818	2,949,182
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	763	1,605	1,262	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	4,884	4,884	0	3,961	2,442
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	53,232,993 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	0 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	877,942	66,753,921	5,864,082	57,670,772	65,741,573
Total income ? Median	-4,970,447 6,586,430	2,240,064 6,767,106	13,907,010 8,419,950	15,407,424 8,094,175	16,547,663 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	61 31,473.5
Net income Median	-4,970,447 6,043,842	2,240,064 5,845,112	13,907,010 7,606,259	15,407,424 7,283,041	16,547,602 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-4.53602% 4.62%	1.85153% 4.42%	12.52765% 5.16%	10.49397% 5.2%	10.25191% 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 OCHSNER LSU HEALTH MONROE 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	8,813,365 23,241,334	9,452,624 23,709,545	8,095,861 24,248,380	14,513,579 22,858,541	12,213,676 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	7,307,871 21,577,146	8,591,186 22,041,594	7,410,923 22,722,063	13,538,725 21,570,441	11,124,118 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	1,505,494 1,845,420	861,438 1,757,392	684,938 1,738,842	974,854 1,510,463	1,089,558 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	8,789,710 11,160,864	9,329,918 11,987,345	7,251,816 12,926,866	8,326,973 11,884,480	8,309,798 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	8,789,710 10,918,923	9,329,918 11,706,976	7,251,816 12,615,917	8,326,973 11,458,116	8,309,798 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	986,252 3,284,314	1,080,922 3,250,551	1,086,596 3,386,837	1,275,052 3,360,806	1,475,056 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	596,946 594,888	727,405 595,761	96,043 577,894	111,259 542,168	595,489 549,667
Outlier Median	682,656 582,572	250,020 538,116	54,992 212,434	125,851 126,559	39,926 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	44,372,216 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	4,558,936 2,654,636	4,094,719 2,940,659	2,539,905 3,380,215	5,546,941 3,488,738	4,328,466 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	9,577,420 5,147,790	6,609,708 5,337,617	4,369,987 5,711,082	7,167,416 5,923,418	5,615,610 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	8.36% 3.24	5.57% 3.12	4.50% 3.21	5.45% 3.3	3.88% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	53,949,636 9,489,989	6,609,708 9,424,297	4,369,987 10,120,158	7,167,416 11,171,337	5,615,610 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	35,023,524 52,142,039	39,900,336 54,485,252	31,745,122 57,395,589	46,082,246 58,830,919	43,838,375 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	30.58 36.68	33.60 36.56	32.69 36.37	35.07 35.93	30.26 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	1,454,876 1,251,927	1,907,083 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	3,360,727 1,279,653	3,360,727 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	2,879,321 1,449,244	3,688,950 1,475,986	3,154,801 1,563,078	7,472,841 1,721,954	4,794,129 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	70,633.58 22,725	116,848.14 23,018.5	13,319.00 24,503.48	86,050.10 25,026.5	74,499.50 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	40.76 64.67	31.57 64.53	236.86 65.06	86.84 68.97	64.35 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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