As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BALTIMORE WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 210043
301 HOSPITAL DRIVE, GLEN BURNIE MD 21061. County: ANNE ARUNDEL
System: UMMS
CBSA: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The 285-bed, acute-care hospital had $-341,371 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 12.27095% 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	260 118	255 118	242 119.5	255 118	255 119
Total beds Median	293 162	288 162	272 162	285 162	285 163.5
FTEs Median	2,070.27 788.06	2,085.80 793.42	2,143.98 806.03	2,165.28 787.61	2,241.45 804.34

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	363,185,751 150,932,746	367,990,998 158,950,878	389,018,770 168,696,998	378,466,943 163,454,693	417,385,240 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	334,209,542 149,311,209	348,179,903 156,110,414	363,866,348 164,890,568	380,594,061 166,516,854	417,726,611 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	28,976,209 -964,173	19,811,095 -643,601.5	25,152,422 -116,254	-2,127,118 -5,025,862	-341,371 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	7.98% -0.62	5.38% -0.29	6.47% 0.18	-0.56% -5.07	-0.08% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 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	19,766,330 5,089,215	16,194,545 4,572,541	12,336,995 5,268,134	32,419,128 13,092,619	60,950,307 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	15,220,421 299,524	9,646,201 188,688.5	7,695,770 370,813	2,361,851 309,361.5	34,239,762 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	26,841	25,64--	28,166	27,188	95,947
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	4,900	6,823	7,156	4,709	10,797
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	1,300	710	800	1,300	315
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,797,114	1,806,859	1,862,135	1,402,016	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	208,468	160,852	121,033	47,214	7,079
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	141,060	146,247	107,998	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	1,287,561	1,322,512	1,309,625	955,077	869,429
⊳ 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	1,219,725	3,083,888	1,166,063	27,511,775	25,726,978
Total income ? Median	48,742,539 6,586,430	36,005,640 6,767,106	37,489,417 8,419,950	30,292,010 8,094,175	60,608,936 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	4,414,143 146,289.5	3,956,640 164,857	1,873,846 89,880.5	1,278,301 106,761	1,912,622 31,473.5
Net income Median	44,328,396 6,043,842	32,049,000 5,845,112	35,615,571 7,606,259	29,013,709 7,283,041	58,696,314 14,957,241
Net margin Median	11.57544% 4.62%	8.34206% 4.42%	8.87382% 5.16%	7.06125% 5.2%	12.27095% 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 BALTIMORE WASHINGTON 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	109,625,621 23,241,334	112,247,582 23,709,545	108,688,471 24,248,380	102,005,833 22,858,541	110,808,343 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	109,625,621 21,577,146	112,247,582 22,041,594	108,688,471 22,722,063	102,005,833 21,570,441	110,808,343 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	54,571,926 11,160,864	56,474,496 11,987,345	59,011,983 12,926,866	47,675,443 11,884,480	50,077,651 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	54,571,926 10,918,923	56,474,496 11,706,976	59,011,983 12,615,917	47,675,443 11,458,116	50,077,651 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	2,518,719 594,888	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	0 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,662,103 2,654,636	830,621 2,940,659	3,746,913 3,380,215	4,262,309 3,488,738	0 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	16,759,297 5,147,790	12,122,550 5,337,617	14,499,390 5,711,082	12,819,120 5,923,418	0 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	5.01% 3.24	3.48% 3.12	3.98% 3.21	3.37% 3.3	0.00% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	16,759,297 9,489,989	12,122,550 9,424,297	14,499,390 10,120,158	12,819,120 11,171,337	0 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	129,665,761 52,142,039	136,124,547 54,485,252	141,200,110 57,395,589	150,858,614 58,830,919	158,741,050 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.47 36.68	39.10 36.56	38.81 36.37	39.64 35.93	38.00 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	4,028,133 1,449,244	2,072,001 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	4,915,241 1,721,954	9,609,990 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	53,980.00 22,725	32,974.00 23,018.5	0.00 24,503.48	71,779.00 25,026.5	81,469.55 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	74.62 64.67	62.84 64.53	0.00 65.06	68.48 68.97	117.96 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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