As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

UPPER CHESAPEAKE MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 210049
520 UPPER CHESAPEAKE DR, BEL AIR MD 21014. County: HARFORD
System: UCHS
CBSA: Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

The 161-bed, acute-care hospital had $13,442,005 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 16.50998% 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	156 118	158 118	135 119.5	148 118	148 119
Total beds Median	170 162	171 162	149 162	161 162	161 163.5
FTEs Median	1,518.00 788.06	1,520.96 793.42	1,529.13 806.03	1,506.62 787.61	1,483.52 804.34

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	296,834,888 150,932,746	297,869,756 158,950,878	276,845,230 168,696,998	259,779,506 163,454,693	298,216,396 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	284,219,000 149,311,209	264,969,819 156,110,414	253,180,797 164,890,568	272,962,265 166,516,854	284,774,391 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	12,615,888 -964,173	32,899,937 -643,601.5	23,664,433 -116,254	-13,182,759 -5,025,862	13,442,005 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	4.25% -0.62	11.05% -0.29	8.55% 0.18	-5.07% -5.07	4.51% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for UPPER CHESAPEAKE 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	34,472,639 5,089,215	10,623,436 4,572,541	11,476,993 5,268,134	27,408,429 13,092,619	59,220,807 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	742,650 224,999	835,141 199,009	1,018,333 206,870.5	954,912 194,343	943,334 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	9,935,704 299,524	6,695,656 188,688.5	6,712,234 370,813	958,620 309,361.5	34,035,517 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	24,568	29,016	16,666	35,411	23,822
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	8,473
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	130,281	73,036	101,385	32,666	111,513
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,170,255	1,143,933	1,225,906	1,144,564	1,415,309
⊳ 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	569	225	271	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	35,805	38,439	20,681	4,310	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	1,373,891	1,452,961	1,786,305	1,775,282	1,745,936
⊳ 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	21,058,916	355,029	595,212	22,502,664	20,936,903
Total income ? Median	47,088,527 6,586,430	43,523,373 6,767,106	35,141,426 8,419,950	14,225,670 8,094,175	72,662,812 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	22,877,527 146,289.5	762,373 164,857	601,830 89,880.5	12,676,670 106,761	13,650,007 31,473.5
Net income Median	24,211,000 6,043,842	42,761,000 5,845,112	34,539,596 7,606,259	1,549,000 7,283,041	59,012,805 14,957,241
Net margin Median	7.30771% 4.62%	13.86125% 4.42%	11.97951% 5.16%	0.53937% 5.2%	16.50998% 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 UPPER CHESAPEAKE 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	68,415,784 23,241,334	67,498,460 23,709,545	74,517,488 24,248,380	75,140,468 22,858,541	83,528,208 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	68,415,784 21,577,146	67,498,460 22,041,594	74,517,488 22,722,063	75,140,468 21,570,441	83,528,208 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	69,312,231 11,160,864	75,380,878 11,987,345	55,381,219 12,926,866	49,922,326 11,884,480	49,528,039 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	69,312,231 10,918,923	75,380,878 11,706,976	55,381,219 12,615,917	49,922,326 11,458,116	49,528,039 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	658,696 594,888	0 595,761	0 577,894	0 542,168	0 549,667
Outlier Median	1,711,522 582,572	1,143,744 538,116	838,082 212,434	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	1,577,162 2,654,636	810,849 2,940,659	1,875,315 3,380,215	597,355 3,488,738	0 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	8,655,657 5,147,790	6,772,560 5,337,617	8,967,494 5,711,082	17,890,059 5,923,418	0 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	3.05% 3.24	2.56% 3.12	3.54% 3.21	6.55% 3.3	0.00% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	8,655,657 9,489,989	6,772,560 9,424,297	8,967,494 10,120,158	17,890,059 11,171,337	0 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	98,408,552 52,142,039	101,281,058 54,485,252	105,284,720 57,395,589	109,911,968 58,830,919	112,014,890 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	37.00 36.68	38.22 36.56	41.58 36.37	40.27 35.93	39.33 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	182,313 1,449,244	93,467 1,475,986	1,676,117 1,563,078	2,635,376 1,721,954	1,643,045 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	3,114.00 22,725	1,863.91 23,018.5	26,007.00 24,503.48	37,675.25 25,026.5	19,430.75 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	58.55 64.67	50.15 64.53	64.45 65.06	69.95 68.97	84.56 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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