As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

WEST JEFFERSON MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 190039
1101 MEDICAL CENTER BLVD, MARRERO LA 70072. County: ORLEANS PARISH
System: --
CBSA: New Orleans-Metairie, LA

The 223-bed, acute-care hospital had $-35,761,694 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of -0.65235% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.33% 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	147 118	174 118	148 119.5	148 118	150 119
Total beds Median	237 162	255 162	213 162	213 162	223 163.5
FTEs Median	1,540.61 788.06	1,378.92 793.42	1,513.66 806.03	1,244.58 787.61	1,265.07 804.34

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	251,213,330 150,932,746	262,244,315 158,950,878	265,070,117 168,696,998	277,564,595 163,454,693	309,849,891 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	275,729,832 149,311,209	292,050,811 156,110,414	295,422,148 164,890,568	312,923,924 166,516,854	345,611,585 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-24,516,502 -964,173	-29,806,496 -643,601.5	-30,352,031 -116,254	-35,359,329 -5,025,862	-35,761,694 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-9.76% -0.62	-11.37% -0.29	-11.45% 0.18	-12.74% -5.07	-11.54% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for WEST JEFFERSON 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	13,194,375 5,089,215	11,952,242 4,572,541	16,930,518 5,268,134	49,646,378 13,092,619	33,521,694 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	13,910 206,870.5	-674,803 194,343	403,038 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	-80,423 299,524	561,277 188,688.5	36,456 370,813	-57,913 309,361.5	519,974 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	213	880	223	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	10,053,677	10,571,912
⊳ 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	541,589	368,677	0	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	5,450,654	5,250,445	5,519,993	6,181,646	7,012,275
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	500,645 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	7,282,342	5,770,963	11,359,936	34,143,771	14,513,850
Total income ? Median	-11,322,127 6,586,430	-17,854,254 6,767,106	-13,421,513 8,419,950	14,287,049 8,094,175	-2,240,000 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	-733,731 146,289.5	-6,667,000 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-10,588,396 6,043,842	-11,187,254 5,845,112	-13,421,513 7,606,259	14,287,049 7,283,041	-2,240,000 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-4.00457% 4.62%	-4.08001% 4.42%	-4.75939% 5.16%	4.36631% 5.2%	-0.65235% 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 WEST JEFFERSON 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	31,462,030 23,241,334	31,897,539 23,709,545	31,753,538 24,248,380	32,749,568 22,858,541	25,945,910 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	27,367,083 21,577,146	28,860,780 22,041,594	28,998,184 22,722,063	30,228,797 21,570,441	23,572,512 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	762,548 1,845,420	337,266 1,757,392	0 1,738,842	0 1,510,463	0 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	3,332,399 3,535,627	2,699,493 3,746,588	2,755,354 3,782,288	2,520,771 3,865,578	2,373,398 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	15,843,115 11,160,864	17,434,275 11,987,345	17,235,658 12,926,866	14,029,240 11,884,480	14,434,293 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	15,843,115 10,918,923	17,434,275 11,706,976	17,235,658 12,615,917	14,029,240 11,458,116	14,434,293 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	1,625,311 3,284,314	1,782,739 3,250,551	1,879,769 3,386,837	2,122,005 3,360,806	2,007,620 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	1,062,387 594,888	1,151,883 595,761	1,104,660 577,894	1,273,425 542,168	1,009,574 549,667
Outlier Median	928,246 582,572	896,519 538,116	186,888 212,434	78,274 126,559	94,057 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	1,822,998 3,662,910	4,040,407 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	9,459,701 2,654,636	6,969,438 2,940,659	3,701,674 3,380,215	4,554,455 3,488,738	9,663,981 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	10,903,886 5,147,790	7,843,168 5,337,617	5,271,435 5,711,082	6,497,769 5,923,418	11,521,865 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.95% 3.24	2.69% 3.12	1.78% 3.21	2.08% 3.3	3.33% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	12,726,884 9,489,989	11,883,575 9,424,297	5,271,435 10,120,158	6,497,769 11,171,337	11,521,865 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	94,604,200 52,142,039	93,641,851 54,485,252	92,854,948 57,395,589	97,524,035 58,830,919	104,191,901 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	34.31 36.68	32.06 36.56	31.43 36.37	30.98 35.93	29.98 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	1,559,591 1,251,927	1,484,697 1,186,494	1,544,554 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	0 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	3,934,855 1,449,244	2,554,378 1,475,986	3,950,854 1,563,078	0 1,721,954	20,916,300 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	76,468.00 22,725	58,565.00 23,018.5	78,280.40 24,503.48	0.00 25,026.5	475,887.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	51.46 64.67	43.62 64.53	50.47 65.06	0.00 68.97	43.95 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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