As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SSM HEALTH DEPAUL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 260104
12303 DEPAUL DRIVE, BRIDGETON MO 63044. County: ST. LOUIS
System: SSM HEALTH CARE CORP
CBSA: St. Louis, MO-IL

The 497-bed, acute-care hospital had $-38,652,093 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 10.32416% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 5.97% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $9,936,799 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	--
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	--
Acute beds Median	386 118	242 118	353 119.5	350 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	507 162	516 162	487 162	497 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	2,098.89 788.06	1,899.03 793.42	1,639.63 806.03	1,712.82 787.61	-- 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	426,570,267 150,932,746	447,671,654 158,950,878	443,038,003 168,696,998	406,866,654 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	410,194,651 149,311,209	418,109,116 156,110,414	439,235,045 164,890,568	445,518,747 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	16,375,616 -964,173	29,562,538 -643,601.5	3,802,958 -116,254	-38,652,093 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	3.84% -0.62	6.60% -0.29	0.86% 0.18	-9.50% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SSM HEALTH DEPAUL 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	27,077,419 5,089,215	42,079,622 4,572,541	52,094,027 5,268,134	93,642,251 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	316,909 224,999	0 199,009	417,505 206,870.5	512,783 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	450,098 299,524	691,622 188,688.5	569,002 370,813	140,867 309,361.5	-- 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	22,323	12,729	12,156	1,388	--
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,790,242	1,753,809	1,764,282	1,155,997	--
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	0	0	44,038,446	52,149,833	--
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	2,668	0	29	474	--
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	423,627	446,908	448,625	460,119	--
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	0 983,261.5	0 1,173,286	0 1,987,202	-- 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	24,071,552	39,174,554	4,843,982	39,220,790	--
Total income ? Median	43,453,035 6,586,430	71,642,160 6,767,106	55,896,985 8,419,950	54,990,158 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	15,706 164,857	0 89,880.5	3,316,819 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	43,453,035 6,043,842	71,626,454 5,845,112	55,896,985 7,606,259	51,673,339 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	9.57859% 4.62%	14.62507% 4.42%	11.28931% 5.16%	10.32416% 5.2%	--% 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 SSM HEALTH DEPAUL 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	75,267,510 23,241,334	76,516,628 23,709,545	70,732,002 24,248,380	65,929,309 22,858,541	-- 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	72,116,878 21,577,146	72,439,313 22,041,594	67,618,658 22,722,063	62,415,867 21,570,441	-- 22,140,684
⊳ Swingbeds ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act payments (TEFRA) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Inpatient psychiatric facility (IPF) ⊳ Median	1,587,603 1,845,420	2,307,237 1,757,392	1,621,885 1,738,842	1,312,164 1,510,463	-- 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	0 3,865,578	-- 3,983,889
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Skilled-nursing facilities (SNF) ⊳ Median	1,563,029 1,203,033	1,770,078 1,215,295	1,491,459 1,313,657	2,201,278 1,365,298	-- 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	42,348,081 11,160,864	40,775,258 11,987,345	41,117,980 12,926,866	36,001,303 11,884,480	-- 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	42,348,081 10,918,923	40,775,258 11,706,976	41,117,980 12,615,917	36,001,303 11,458,116	-- 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 1,282,808	0 1,407,728	0 1,341,512	0 1,407,046	-- 1,476,867
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	0 618,038	0 697,279	0 690,232	0 684,010	-- 670,558
⊳ Other federally qualified health clinics ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --

Other payments

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Graduate Medical Education (GME) Median	1,788,342 3,284,314	1,763,696 3,250,551	1,708,679 3,386,837	1,689,928 3,360,806	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	2,358,781 594,888	2,555,246 595,761	2,137,196 577,894	2,053,521 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	834,606 582,572	608,332 538,116	118,435 212,434	71,122 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	8,482,450 3,662,910	0 3,730,911	9,725,284 4,081,319	9,936,799 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	19,179,362 2,654,636	17,926,911 2,940,659	19,739,323 3,380,215	18,439,831 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	26,380,775 5,147,790	25,613,138 5,337,617	26,179,666 5,711,082	26,615,740 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	6.43% 3.24	6.13% 3.12	5.96% 3.21	5.97% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	34,863,225 9,489,989	25,613,138 9,424,297	35,904,950 10,120,158	36,552,539 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	130,589,286 52,142,039	127,904,815 54,485,252	128,485,116 57,395,589	128,216,458 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	31.84 36.68	30.59 36.56	29.25 36.37	28.78 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	906,050 2,598,592	974,556 2,686,824	1,046,809 2,753,773	1,117,273 2,937,156	-- 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	0 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	-- 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	5,800,573 1,449,244	7,264,532 1,475,986	9,870,908 1,563,078	19,042,679 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	107,095.12 22,725	135,810.83 23,018.5	151,134.20 24,503.48	313,116.79 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	54.16 64.67	53.49 64.53	65.31 65.06	60.82 68.97	-- 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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