As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

EAST CARROLL PARISH HOSPITAL

CMS id: 190208
336 NORTH HOOD STREET, LAKE PROVIDENCE LA 71254. County: EAST CARROLL
System: --
CBSA: Rural Louisiana

The 23-bed, acute-care hospital had $-2,582,356 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of -1.56996% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 4.52% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $142,807 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	23 118	23 118	23 119.5	23 118	23 119
Total beds Median	23 162	23 162	23 162	23 162	23 163.5
FTEs Median	112.08 788.06	110.56 793.42	111.08 806.03	104.99 787.61	104.74 804.34

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	14,125,331 150,932,746	13,790,395 158,950,878	13,396,092 168,696,998	12,032,775 163,454,693	9,558,921 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	15,968,209 149,311,209	12,663,521 156,110,414	12,691,339 164,890,568	12,612,394 166,516,854	12,141,277 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-1,842,878 -964,173	1,126,874 -643,601.5	704,753 -116,254	-579,619 -5,025,862	-2,582,356 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-13.05% -0.62	8.17% -0.29	5.26% 0.18	-4.82% -5.07	-27.02% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for EAST CARROLL PARISH 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	884,423 5,089,215	568,731 4,572,541	680,647 5,268,134	4,610,189 13,092,619	2,394,690 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	76,559 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	3,726,361 194,343	84,317 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	6,082 299,524	5,593 188,688.5	45,232 370,813	58,220 309,361.5	80,784 375,329
⊳ 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	80	14	12	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	158	895	606	403	105
⊳ 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	10,388	10,573	6,755	6,450	6,355
⊳ 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	2,225	1,874	1,781	1,687	729
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	650	600	550	600	600
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	454,649 1,017,693	440,962 983,261.5	470,110 1,173,286	501,585 1,987,202	464,992 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	333,632	108,220	155,601	314,883	1,756,808
Total income ? Median	-958,455 6,586,430	1,695,605 6,767,106	1,385,400 8,419,950	4,030,570 8,094,175	-187,666 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	1 31,473.5
Net income Median	-958,455 6,043,842	1,695,605 5,845,112	1,385,400 7,606,259	4,030,570 7,283,041	-187,667 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-6.38555% 4.62%	11.80855% 4.42%	9.84177% 5.16%	24.21786% 5.2%	-1.56996% 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 EAST CARROLL PARISH 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	1,563,531 23,241,334	2,085,116 23,709,545	1,814,643 24,248,380	1,418,677 22,858,541	947,221 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	1,563,531 21,577,146	2,085,116 22,041,594	1,814,643 22,722,063	1,418,677 21,570,441	947,221 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	0 1,845,420	0 1,757,392	0 1,738,842	0 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	1,053,627 11,160,864	1,038,671 11,987,345	1,080,024 12,926,866	935,830 11,884,480	758,148 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	264,717 10,918,923	276,459 11,706,976	389,792 12,615,917	312,358 11,458,116	265,808 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	788,910 618,038	762,212 697,279	690,232 690,232	623,472 684,010	492,340 670,558
⊳ 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	30,881 594,888	38,552 595,761	28,644 577,894	22,503 542,168	14,607 549,667
Outlier Median	2,905 582,572	3,642 538,116	5,471 212,434	6,967 126,559	0 139,139

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	142,807 4,389,147
Charity care Median	80,726 2,654,636	0 2,940,659	0 3,380,215	0 3,488,738	0 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	927,468 5,147,790	699,171 5,337,617	841,449 5,711,082	553,383 5,923,418	548,852 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	5.81% 3.24	5.52% 3.12	6.63% 3.21	4.39% 3.3	4.52% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	927,468 9,489,989	699,171 9,424,297	841,449 10,120,158	553,383 11,171,337	691,659 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	5,340,285 52,142,039	5,450,616 54,485,252	5,664,121 57,395,589	5,576,878 58,830,919	5,763,002 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	48.60 36.68	49.59 36.56	49.48 36.37	50.28 35.93	50.33 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	938 1,449,244	0 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	0 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	12.50 22,725	0.00 23,018.5	0.00 24,503.48	0.00 25,026.5	0.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	75.04 64.67	0.00 64.53	0.00 65.06	0.00 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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