As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

NORTHWEST HOSPITAL CENTER

CMS id: 210040
5401 OLD COURT ROAD, RANDALLSTOWN MD 21133. County: BALTIMORE
System: LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC.
CBSA: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The 229-bed, acute-care hospital had $-16,648,331 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 7.52234% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 0.00% 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	171 118	187 118	173 119.5	174 118	174 119
Total beds Median	221 162	241 162	228 162	229 162	229 163.5
FTEs Median	1,237.55 788.06	1,247.74 793.42	1,215.54 806.03	1,185.48 787.61	1,077.61 804.34

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	253,443,479 150,932,746	250,224,506 158,950,878	244,332,890 168,696,998	231,725,000 163,454,693	259,717,444 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	240,548,000 149,311,209	244,796,679 156,110,414	246,007,295 164,890,568	249,675,141 166,516,854	276,365,775 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	12,895,479 -964,173	5,427,827 -643,601.5	-1,674,405 -116,254	-17,950,141 -5,025,862	-16,648,331 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	5.09% -0.62	2.17% -0.29	-0.69% 0.18	-7.75% -5.07	-6.41% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for NORTHWEST HOSPITAL 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	18,211,618 5,089,215	22,812,494 4,572,541	25,727,110 5,268,134	32,917,000 13,092,619	39,128,556 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	70,062 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	54,552 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	15,210,000 299,524	6,411,218 188,688.5	5,254,000 370,813	4,544,000 309,361.5	20,351,000 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	6,820	5,457	6,715	6,006	6,167
⊳ 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	692	577	186	32	45
⊳ 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	19,403	18,635	14,130	12,355	10,228
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	403,409	368,032	367,550	367,413	373,356
⊳ 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	2,501,232	16,008,575	20,084,529	27,932,642	18,387,760
Total income ? Median	31,107,097 6,586,430	28,240,321 6,767,106	24,052,705 8,419,950	14,966,859 8,094,175	22,480,225 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	2,091,097 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	29,016,000 6,043,842	28,240,321 5,845,112	24,052,705 7,606,259	14,966,859 7,283,041	22,480,225 14,957,241
Net margin Median	10.68119% 4.62%	10.34304% 4.42%	8.90643% 5.16%	5.65551% 5.2%	7.52234% 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 NORTHWEST HOSPITAL 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	72,067,095 23,241,334	74,605,488 23,709,545	71,442,636 24,248,380	67,534,002 22,858,541	65,729,512 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	67,755,951 21,577,146	69,792,316 22,041,594	66,727,219 22,722,063	64,271,908 21,570,441	63,082,657 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	4,311,144 1,203,033	4,813,172 1,215,295	4,715,417 1,313,657	3,262,094 1,365,298	2,646,855 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	37,634,363 11,160,864	38,239,626 11,987,345	39,813,850 12,926,866	40,772,296 11,884,480	38,194,589 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	37,634,363 10,918,923	38,239,626 11,706,976	39,813,850 12,615,917	40,772,296 11,458,116	38,194,589 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	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	2,738,404 594,888	0 595,761	0 577,894	0 542,168	0 549,667
Outlier Median	0 582,572	0 538,116	0 212,434	0 126,559	0 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	8,145,622 3,662,910	8,447,061 3,730,911	7,943,728 4,081,319	11,552,124 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,897,254 2,654,636	1,581,712 2,940,659	1,583,314 3,380,215	1,343,906 3,488,738	0 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	8,293,320 5,147,790	8,529,044 5,337,617	8,104,956 5,711,082	11,647,522 5,923,418	0 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.45% 3.24	3.48% 3.12	3.29% 3.21	4.67% 3.3	0.00% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	16,438,942 9,489,989	16,976,105 9,424,297	16,048,684 10,120,158	23,199,646 11,171,337	0 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	91,855,867 52,142,039	92,917,734 54,485,252	92,373,026 57,395,589	91,232,841 58,830,919	96,173,123 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.19 36.68	37.96 36.56	37.55 36.37	36.54 35.93	34.80 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	1,335,028 1,449,244	266,196 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	2,246,602 1,721,954	8,226,765 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	23,766.00 22,725	3,965.00 23,018.5	0.00 24,503.48	29,885.00 25,026.5	71,723.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	56.17 64.67	67.14 64.53	0.00 65.06	75.17 68.97	114.70 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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