As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BATON ROUGE GENERAL

CMS id: 190065
8585 PICARDY AVENUE, BATON ROUGE LA 70809. County: EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH
System: GENERAL HEALTH SYSTEM
CBSA: Baton Rouge, LA

The 341-bed, acute-care hospital had $-9,637,556 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 8.40032% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.30% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $20,467,463 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	212 118	212 118	230 119.5	230 118	199 119
Total beds Median	365 162	365 162	361 162	361 162	341 163.5
FTEs Median	1,994.03 788.06	2,020.49 793.42	1,993.55 806.03	1,908.65 787.61	1,993.58 804.34

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	407,231,484 150,932,746	403,742,852 158,950,878	375,086,946 168,696,998	396,514,392 163,454,693	425,512,632 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	393,752,985 149,311,209	399,468,929 156,110,414	377,348,976 164,890,568	405,050,341 166,516,854	435,150,188 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	13,478,499 -964,173	4,273,923 -643,601.5	-2,262,030 -116,254	-8,535,949 -5,025,862	-9,637,556 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	3.31% -0.62	1.06% -0.29	-0.60% 0.18	-2.15% -5.07	-2.26% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BATON ROUGE GENERAL 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	23,393,530 5,089,215	23,960,025 4,572,541	30,852,724 5,268,134	77,816,951 13,092,619	67,565,935 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	2,607,542 299,524	1,768,398 188,688.5	3,295,215 370,813	-2,747,888 309,361.5	8,260,248 375,329
⊳ 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	20,785,988	22,191,627	27,557,509	80,564,839	59,305,687
Total income ? Median	36,872,029 6,586,430	28,233,948 6,767,106	28,590,694 8,419,950	69,281,002 8,094,175	57,928,379 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	7,514,825 146,289.5	13,375,859 164,857	11,698,350 89,880.5	12,717,687 106,761	16,508,219 31,473.5
Net income Median	29,357,204 6,043,842	14,858,089 5,845,112	16,892,344 7,606,259	56,563,315 7,283,041	41,420,160 14,957,241
Net margin Median	6.81735% 4.62%	3.47393% 4.42%	4.16129% 5.16%	11.92485% 5.2%	8.40032% 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 BATON ROUGE GENERAL 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	70,249,656 23,241,334	65,678,901 23,709,545	69,735,336 24,248,380	66,411,250 22,858,541	63,322,890 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	64,230,710 21,577,146	59,524,818 22,041,594	64,754,428 22,722,063	61,017,454 21,570,441	59,148,821 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	3,458,168 1,845,420	3,711,702 1,757,392	2,846,478 1,738,842	2,973,710 1,510,463	2,282,477 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	916,716 3,535,627	952,376 3,746,588	662,039 3,782,288	984,842 3,865,578	858,324 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	1,644,062 1,203,033	1,490,005 1,215,295	1,472,391 1,313,657	1,435,244 1,365,298	1,033,268 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	29,862,134 11,160,864	30,255,033 11,987,345	23,681,031 12,926,866	20,010,684 11,884,480	21,608,985 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	29,862,134 10,918,923	30,255,033 11,706,976	23,681,031 12,615,917	20,010,684 11,458,116	21,608,985 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	8,430,789 3,284,314	7,563,653 3,250,551	7,884,481 3,386,837	7,739,869 3,360,806	7,442,608 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	1,833,871 594,888	1,678,989 595,761	1,513,125 577,894	1,464,973 542,168	1,256,383 549,667
Outlier Median	1,484,314 582,572	2,109,052 538,116	278,230 212,434	231,528 126,559	299,776 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	37,548,919 3,662,910	18,545,768 3,730,911	17,918,149 4,081,319	20,794,842 4,643,908	20,467,463 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,798,616 2,654,636	53,683 2,940,659	1,824,304 3,380,215	1,883,482 3,488,738	744,832 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	5,284,494 5,147,790	6,440,846 5,337,617	5,871,768 5,711,082	7,357,966 5,923,418	5,651,661 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.34% 3.24	1.61% 3.12	1.56% 3.21	1.82% 3.3	1.30% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	42,833,413 9,489,989	24,986,614 9,424,297	23,789,917 10,120,158	28,152,808 11,171,337	26,119,124 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	112,209,241 52,142,039	110,872,128 54,485,252	111,395,203 57,395,589	115,133,142 58,830,919	129,221,668 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	28.59 36.68	27.75 36.56	29.52 36.37	28.42 35.93	29.70 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	2,361,709 1,449,244	1,443,052 1,475,986	1,472,864 1,563,078	3,680,475 1,721,954	9,564,350 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	33,605.28 22,725	20,320.31 23,018.5	20,912.00 24,503.48	50,515.68 25,026.5	93,288.82 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	70.28 64.67	71.02 64.53	70.43 65.06	72.86 68.97	102.52 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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