As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

NORTHERN MONTANA HOSPITAL

CMS id: 270032
30 13TH STREET, HAVRE MT 59501. County: HILL
System: --
CBSA: Rural Montana

The 184-bed, acute-care hospital had $1,132,540 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 13.38555% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.25% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $2,838 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	43 118	43 118	43 119.5	43 118	43 119
Total beds Median	184 162	184 162	184 162	184 162	184 163.5
FTEs Median	505.43 788.06	480.58 793.42	467.09 806.03	483.88 787.61	489.69 804.34

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	63,670,225 150,932,746	57,789,475 158,950,878	70,682,518 168,696,998	70,818,938 163,454,693	74,033,042 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	63,338,446 149,311,209	63,022,862 156,110,414	63,677,483 164,890,568	68,618,093 166,516,854	72,900,502 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	331,779 -964,173	-5,233,387 -643,601.5	7,005,035 -116,254	2,200,845 -5,025,862	1,132,540 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	0.52% -0.62	-9.06% -0.29	9.91% 0.18	3.11% -5.07	1.53% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for NORTHERN MONTANA 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	2,545,569 5,089,215	2,413,407 4,572,541	2,931,528 5,268,134	3,866,079 13,092,619	10,290,515 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	34,859 224,999	67,901 199,009	83,676 206,870.5	0 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	1,074,292 299,524	683,125 188,688.5	1,026,328 370,813	1,423,048 309,361.5	950,658 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	1,555	2,057	1,152	1,570	2,415
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	43,223	13,089	6,684	4,242	9,929
⊳ 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	246,515	238,760	229,440	197,355	159,808
⊳ 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	18,299	48,484	51,805	49,266	44,289
⊳ 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	1,857	1,394	471	452	414
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 23: Gov appropriations ? ⊳ Median	0 1,017,693	7,469 983,261.5	27,105 1,173,286	191,445 1,987,202	161,303 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	1,124,969	1,351,128	1,504,867	1,998,701	8,961,699
Total income ? Median	2,877,348 6,586,430	-2,819,980 6,767,106	9,936,563 8,419,950	6,066,924 8,094,175	11,423,055 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	-66,607 164,857	3,113,535 89,880.5	-392,925 106,761	135,884 31,473.5
Net income Median	2,877,348 6,043,842	-2,753,373 5,845,112	6,823,028 7,606,259	6,459,849 7,283,041	11,287,171 14,957,241
Net margin Median	4.34541% 4.62%	-4.57349% 4.42%	9.26865% 5.16%	8.64946% 5.2%	13.38555% 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 NORTHERN MONTANA 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	5,435,102 23,241,334	4,864,158 23,709,545	5,921,881 24,248,380	5,913,044 22,858,541	6,356,687 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	4,864,779 21,577,146	4,422,856 22,041,594	5,501,451 22,722,063	4,837,647 21,570,441	5,713,784 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	570,323 1,203,033	441,302 1,215,295	420,430 1,313,657	1,075,397 1,365,298	642,903 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	8,746,756 11,160,864	8,511,872 11,987,345	9,742,499 12,926,866	9,294,767 11,884,480	9,824,399 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	5,940,771 10,918,923	5,870,208 11,706,976	6,812,708 12,615,917	6,140,054 11,458,116	6,395,778 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	2,805,985 618,038	2,641,664 697,279	2,929,791 690,232	3,154,713 684,010	3,428,621 670,558
⊳ 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	92,040 594,888	84,474 595,761	105,623 577,894	91,043 542,168	107,450 549,667
Outlier Median	50,768 582,572	48,150 538,116	1,005 212,434	6,686 126,559	13,465 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	2,745,726 3,662,910	1,899,631 3,730,911	893 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	2,838 4,389,147
Charity care Median	459,596 2,654,636	213,364 2,940,659	89,762 3,380,215	154,498 3,488,738	202,128 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	1,617,013 5,147,790	1,736,893 5,337,617	881,431 5,711,082	1,379,029 5,923,418	909,949 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.55% 3.24	2.76% 3.12	1.38% 3.21	2.01% 3.3	1.25% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	4,362,739 9,489,989	3,636,524 9,424,297	882,324 10,120,158	1,379,029 11,171,337	912,787 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	29,269,438 52,142,039	29,671,737 54,485,252	28,941,017 57,395,589	30,461,087 58,830,919	31,538,621 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	46.08 36.68	46.96 36.56	45.33 36.37	45.14 35.93	44.09 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	561,284 1,449,244	16,718 1,475,986	138,187 1,563,078	803,052 1,721,954	984,073 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	10,289.00 22,725	373.00 23,018.5	2,608.00 24,503.48	13,952.84 25,026.5	13,448.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	54.55 64.67	44.82 64.53	52.99 65.06	57.55 68.97	73.18 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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