As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL

CMS id: 220088
125 PARKER HILL AVENUE, BOSTON MA 2120. County: SUFFOLK
System: BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC
CBSA: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

The 75-bed, acute-care hospital had $-8,584,275 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 11.23541% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 0.13% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $1,400,170 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	88 118	88 118	88 119.5	88 118	65 119
Total beds Median	98 162	98 162	98 162	98 162	75 163.5
FTEs Median	954.82 788.06	928.34 793.42	937.43 806.03	862.80 787.61	831.37 804.34

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	223,599,726 150,932,746	225,021,802 158,950,878	225,359,409 168,696,998	188,996,936 163,454,693	216,016,043 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	234,109,156 149,311,209	237,209,255 156,110,414	233,755,601 164,890,568	219,776,900 166,516,854	224,600,318 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-10,509,430 -964,173	-12,187,453 -643,601.5	-8,396,192 -116,254	-30,779,964 -5,025,862	-8,584,275 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-4.70% -0.62	-5.42% -0.29	-3.73% 0.18	-16.29% -5.07	-3.97% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST 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	20,575,576 5,089,215	21,062,521 4,572,541	20,343,212 5,268,134	23,723,002 13,092,619	37,013,128 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	1,933,202 224,999	1,855,676 199,009	1,819,960 206,870.5	1,745,741 194,343	1,472,730 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	859,760 299,524	1,204,207 188,688.5	1,532,151 370,813	961,215 309,361.5	524,847 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	84,875	73,944	84,296	84,118	87,--82
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	618,083	628,750	568,934	510,610	488,562
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	1,813,128	1,753,276	1,736,955	1,453,432	1,438,910
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	9,638	10,572	9,520	5,760	4,933
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,149,907	1,259,122	1,178,968	803,065	691,456
⊳ 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	33,013	21,514	37,634	18,771	17,120
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	175,407	183,266	200,442	115,848	67,692
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	1,313,994	1,508,670	1,650,106	2,074,303	1,651,380
⊳ 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	12,490,278	12,477,540	11,437,581	15,862,617	30,487,356
Total income ? Median	10,066,146 6,586,430	8,875,068 6,767,106	11,947,020 8,419,950	-7,056,962 8,094,175	28,428,853 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	10,066,146 6,043,842	8,875,068 5,845,112	11,947,020 7,606,259	-7,056,962 7,283,041	28,428,853 14,957,241
Net margin Median	4.12251% 4.62%	3.60651% 4.42%	4.86239% 5.16%	-3.31749% 5.2%	11.23541% 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 NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST 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	58,562,379 23,241,334	61,671,387 23,709,545	61,759,162 24,248,380	54,890,991 22,858,541	50,720,504 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	58,562,379 21,577,146	61,671,387 22,041,594	61,759,162 22,722,063	54,890,991 21,570,441	50,720,504 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	12,040,111 11,160,864	12,003,022 11,987,345	12,577,508 12,926,866	10,111,630 11,884,480	23,597,658 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	12,040,111 10,918,923	12,003,022 11,706,976	12,577,508 12,615,917	10,111,630 11,458,116	23,597,658 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	2,032,314 3,284,314	2,130,751 3,250,551	2,147,866 3,386,837	1,989,576 3,360,806	1,860,183 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	0 594,888	0 595,761	0 577,894	0 542,168	0 549,667
Outlier Median	261,284 582,572	216,930 538,116	21,920 212,434	45,497 126,559	50,362 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	106,235 3,662,910	154,321 3,730,911	415,227 4,081,319	2,199,536 4,643,908	1,400,170 4,389,147
Charity care Median	36,370 2,654,636	89,305 2,940,659	150,103 3,380,215	128,107 3,488,738	282,490 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	123,036 5,147,790	116,057 5,337,617	880,325 5,711,082	458,987 5,923,418	289,906 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	0.05% 3.24	0.05% 3.12	0.38% 3.21	0.21% 3.3	0.13% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	229,271 9,489,989	270,378 9,424,297	1,295,552 10,120,158	2,658,523 11,171,337	1,690,076 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	83,950,954 52,142,039	85,393,586 54,485,252	85,254,832 57,395,589	79,676,766 58,830,919	79,089,366 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	35.86 36.68	36.00 36.56	36.47 36.37	36.25 35.93	35.21 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	0 1,449,244	0 1,475,986	0 1,563,078	0 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	0.00 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	0.00 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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