As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BRYAN MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 280003
1600 SOUTH 48 TH STREET, LINCOLN NE 68506. County: LANCASTER
System: BRYAN HEALTH
CBSA: Lincoln, NE

The 603-bed, acute-care hospital had $37,052,304 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 18.07947% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 5.48% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $11,425,355 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	408 118	423 118	433 119.5	452 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	559 162	574 162	584 162	603 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	3,077.00 788.06	3,185.25 793.42	3,298.00 806.03	3,502.00 787.61	-- 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	596,085,240 150,932,746	621,292,018 158,950,878	688,582,749 168,696,998	705,516,250 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	573,903,779 149,311,209	593,461,424 156,110,414	641,457,970 164,890,568	668,463,946 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	22,181,461 -964,173	27,830,594 -643,601.5	47,124,779 -116,254	37,052,304 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	3.72% -0.62	4.48% -0.29	6.84% 0.18	5.25% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BRYAN 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	62,563,516 5,089,215	30,169,310 4,572,541	78,327,221 5,268,134	110,474,453 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	1,146,798 224,999	1,125,898 199,009	978,259 206,870.5	6,326,570 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	31,045,511 299,524	-7,268,534 188,688.5	42,746,309 370,813	27,398,575 309,361.5	-- 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	6,131	9,357	880	1,460	--
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	2,222,685	2,344,117	0	0	--
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	44,539	--
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	3,232,041	3,286,320	3,398,068	2,771,870	--
⊳ 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	1,492,115	--
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	2,371,468	4,388,552	5,051,281	5,855,443	--
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	163,338	192,758	24,245	308,651	--
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	10,078,815	10,785,270	11,303,221	12,533,165	--
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	22,312	--
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	18,046	23,789	23,619	16,546	--
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	4,477,346	4,222,266	1,156,087	4,764,424	--
⊳ 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	7,801,337	11,059,517	13,625,326	48,920,868	--
Total income ? Median	84,744,977 6,586,430	57,999,904 6,767,106	125,452,000 8,419,950	147,526,757 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	203,000 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	84,541,977 6,043,842	57,999,904 5,845,112	125,452,000 7,606,259	147,526,757 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	12.83567% 4.62%	8.90305% 4.42%	16.35811% 5.16%	18.07947% 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 BRYAN 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	125,666,746 23,241,334	138,830,412 23,709,545	148,014,726 24,248,380	147,102,998 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	118,216,086 21,577,146	131,150,278 22,041,594	140,195,575 22,722,063	138,770,086 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	3,351,107 1,845,420	2,881,058 1,757,392	2,723,157 1,738,842	2,467,613 1,510,463	-- 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	4,099,553 3,535,627	4,799,076 3,746,588	5,095,994 3,782,288	5,865,299 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	0 1,203,033	0 1,215,295	0 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	-- 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	43,727,285 11,160,864	42,990,343 11,987,345	47,451,065 12,926,866	50,675,811 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	43,727,285 10,918,923	42,990,343 11,706,976	47,451,065 12,615,917	50,675,811 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	1,620,183 3,284,314	1,713,804 3,250,551	1,784,967 3,386,837	1,703,317 3,360,806	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	2,067,556 594,888	1,787,880 595,761	1,852,733 577,894	2,033,596 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	3,811,109 582,572	3,757,775 538,116	822,196 212,434	702,658 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	9,055,998 3,662,910	9,843,856 3,730,911	12,620,114 4,081,319	11,425,355 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	21,544,118 2,654,636	23,007,580 2,940,659	28,420,134 3,380,215	25,216,222 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	32,995,536 5,147,790	34,413,058 5,337,617	41,790,345 5,711,082	36,635,234 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	5.75% 3.24	5.80% 3.12	6.51% 3.21	5.48% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	42,051,534 9,489,989	44,256,914 9,424,297	54,410,459 10,120,158	48,060,589 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	193,895,090 52,142,039	205,616,998 54,485,252	217,122,570 57,395,589	231,431,291 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	33.79 36.68	34.65 36.56	33.85 36.37	34.62 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 2,598,592	0 2,686,824	0 2,753,773	0 2,937,156	-- 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	1,513,808 1,251,927	573,831 1,186,494	1,757,798 1,204,885	1,226,089 1,279,653	-- 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	6,832,627 1,449,244	4,205,253 1,475,986	6,853,012 1,563,078	6,739,614 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	111,788.00 22,725	91,553.00 23,018.5	128,667.00 24,503.48	105,062.00 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	61.12 64.67	45.93 64.53	53.26 65.06	64.15 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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