As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BILLINGS CLINIC

CMS id: 270004
2800 TENTH AVENUE NORTH, BILLINGS MT 59107. County: YELLOWSTONE
System: BILLINGS CLINIC HOME OFFICE
CBSA: Billings, MT

The 333-bed, acute-care hospital had $-28,420,262 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 18.44935% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.33% 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	239 118	252 118	257 119.5	253 118	285 119
Total beds Median	283 162	296 162	301 162	297 162	333 163.5
FTEs Median	3,146.74 788.06	3,165.97 793.42	2,977.10 806.03	3,269.27 787.61	3,420.86 804.34

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	644,896,674 150,932,746	667,249,073 158,950,878	713,188,432 168,696,998	707,743,661 163,454,693	797,071,575 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	655,567,290 149,311,209	682,620,529 156,110,414	705,015,905 164,890,568	741,182,514 166,516,854	825,491,837 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-10,670,616 -964,173	-15,371,456 -643,601.5	8,172,527 -116,254	-33,438,853 -5,025,862	-28,420,262 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-1.65% -0.62	-2.30% -0.29	1.15% 0.18	-4.72% -5.07	-3.57% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BILLINGS CLINIC 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	92,793,800 5,089,215	116,981,451 4,572,541	85,740,665 5,268,134	89,576,922 13,092,619	215,172,820 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	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	0 370,813	0 309,361.5	0 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	0	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	92,793,800	116,981,451	85,740,665	89,576,922	215,172,820
Total income ? Median	82,123,184 6,586,430	101,609,995 6,767,106	93,913,192 8,419,950	56,138,069 8,094,175	186,752,558 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	82,123,184 6,043,842	101,609,995 5,845,112	93,913,192 7,606,259	56,138,069 7,283,041	186,752,558 14,957,241
Net margin Median	11.13247% 4.62%	12.95665% 4.42%	11.75488% 5.16%	7.04084% 5.2%	18.44935% 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 BILLINGS CLINIC 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	79,652,871 23,241,334	82,204,067 23,709,545	88,111,440 24,248,380	79,313,494 22,858,541	91,912,031 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	79,652,871 21,577,146	82,204,067 22,041,594	88,111,440 22,722,063	79,313,494 21,570,441	91,912,031 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	62,372,844 11,160,864	67,919,759 11,987,345	74,851,697 12,926,866	74,471,800 11,884,480	83,868,655 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	62,372,844 10,918,923	67,919,759 11,706,976	74,851,697 12,615,917	74,471,800 11,458,116	83,868,655 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	4,258,280 3,284,314	4,731,374 3,250,551	5,074,324 3,386,837	4,776,371 3,360,806	5,522,290 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	3,104,837 594,888	2,603,885 595,761	2,891,063 577,894	2,775,058 542,168	2,834,797 549,667
Outlier Median	2,197,725 582,572	2,842,214 538,116	2,391,698 212,434	618,075 126,559	540,243 139,139

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	4,077,798 2,654,636	6,603,830 2,940,659	7,595,597 3,380,215	12,286,851 3,488,738	14,429,651 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	13,035,762 5,147,790	13,152,875 5,337,617	12,369,230 5,711,082	18,050,820 5,923,418	19,235,662 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.99% 3.24	1.93% 3.12	1.75% 3.21	2.44% 3.3	2.33% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	13,035,762 9,489,989	13,152,875 9,424,297	12,369,230 10,120,158	18,050,820 11,171,337	19,235,662 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	306,339,243 52,142,039	315,151,261 54,485,252	327,739,808 57,395,589	340,234,666 58,830,919	370,452,356 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	46.73 36.68	46.17 36.56	46.49 36.37	45.90 35.93	44.52 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	553,678 1,251,927	574,389 1,186,494	631,700 1,204,885	760,050 1,279,653	607,927 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	9,055,326 1,449,244	9,593,389 1,475,986	10,930,516 1,563,078	13,113,159 1,721,954	17,336,549 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	125,626.00 22,725	133,908.00 23,018.5	166,272.06 24,503.48	177,218.28 25,026.5	204,853.41 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	72.08 64.67	71.64 64.53	65.74 65.06	73.99 68.97	84.63 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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