As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

HOMER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 190114
620 EAST COLLEGE, HOMER LA 71040. County: CLAIBORNE
System: --
CBSA: Rural Louisiana

The 47-bed, acute-care hospital had $-23,304,796 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 8.53841% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 0.93% 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	gov	gov	gov	gov	gov
Acute beds Median	32 118	33 118	33 119.5	33 118	33 119
Total beds Median	46 162	47 162	47 162	47 162	47 163.5
FTEs Median	44.78 788.06	48.08 793.42	47.90 806.03	164.95 787.61	178.64 804.34

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	14,168,398 150,932,746	13,825,571 158,950,878	15,145,051 168,696,998	12,280,872 163,454,693	16,564,886 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	37,219,022 149,311,209	40,632,094 156,110,414	33,439,017 164,890,568	31,501,129 166,516,854	39,869,682 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-23,050,624 -964,173	-26,806,523 -643,601.5	-18,293,966 -116,254	-19,220,257 -5,025,862	-23,304,796 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-162.69% -0.62	-193.89% -0.29	-120.79% 0.18	-156.51% -5.07	-140.69% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for HOMER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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	22,906,870 5,089,215	25,697,440 4,572,541	19,274,440 5,268,134	19,105,131 13,092,619	27,026,835 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	5,191 194,343	21,235 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	16,678 299,524	25,951 188,688.5	25,442 370,813	31,946 309,361.5	27,852 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	18,219	28,309	21,001	17,019	21,504
⊳ 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	116,832	137,865	165,919	130,063	95,533
⊳ 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	4,965	4,928	2,639	2,722	750
⊳ 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	7,495	7,422	7,974	5,445	2,999
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	18,264	18,783	0	66,012	52,756
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	31,028 1,173,286	694,413 1,987,202	685,882 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	22,724,417	25,474,182	19,020,437	18,152,320	26,118,324
Total income ? Median	-143,754 6,586,430	-1,109,083 6,767,106	980,474 8,419,950	-115,126 8,094,175	3,722,039 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-143,754 6,043,842	-1,109,083 5,845,112	980,474 7,606,259	-115,126 7,283,041	3,722,039 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-0.38774% 4.62%	-2.80617% 4.42%	2.84860% 5.16%	-0.36681% 5.2%	8.53841% 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 HOMER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL 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	5,071,038 23,241,334	4,703,318 23,709,545	4,510,409 24,248,380	3,441,473 22,858,541	3,591,294 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	4,233,847 21,577,146	3,938,443 22,041,594	3,743,252 22,722,063	3,160,990 21,570,441	3,591,294 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	837,191 1,845,420	764,875 1,757,392	767,157 1,738,842	280,483 1,510,463	0 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	1,744,464 11,160,864	1,645,231 11,987,345	1,822,488 12,926,866	1,725,793 11,884,480	1,211,247 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	1,409,198 10,918,923	1,214,295 11,706,976	1,330,193 12,615,917	1,235,909 11,458,116	882,469 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	335,266 1,282,808	430,936 1,407,728	492,295 1,341,512	489,884 1,407,046	328,778 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	91,520 594,888	109,371 595,761	90,580 577,894	85,064 542,168	106,961 549,667
Outlier Median	125,972 582,572	73,977 538,116	16,272 212,434	3,246 126,559	7,019 139,139

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	10,906 2,654,636	5,178 2,940,659	0 3,380,215	0 3,488,738	0 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	685,925 5,147,790	604,736 5,337,617	1,063,761 5,711,082	568,350 5,923,418	370,001 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.84% 3.24	1.49% 3.12	3.18% 3.21	1.80% 3.3	0.93% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	685,925 9,489,989	604,736 9,424,297	1,063,761 10,120,158	568,350 11,171,337	370,001 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	7,425,719 52,142,039	7,973,583 54,485,252	7,605,247 57,395,589	7,682,494 58,830,919	9,324,699 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	19.95 36.68	19.62 36.56	22.74 36.37	24.39 35.93	23.39 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	366,004 1,449,244	458,130 1,475,986	344,992 1,563,078	328,010 1,721,954	578,193 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	4,871.84 22,725	7,108.31 23,018.5	4,486.71 24,503.48	4,543.68 25,026.5	6,564.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	75.13 64.67	64.45 64.53	76.89 65.06	72.19 68.97	88.09 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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