As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

COOPER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL

CMS id: 310014
ONE COOPER PLAZA, CAMDEN NJ 8103. County: CAMDEN
System: COOPER HEALTH SYSTEM
CBSA: Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

The 562-bed, acute-care hospital had $69,582,998 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 5.71141% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 2.59% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $39,564,749 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	474 118	483 118	485 119.5	471 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	575 162	574 162	575 162	562 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	4,361.81 788.06	4,566.00 793.42	4,806.05 806.03	4,926.82 787.61	-- 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	848,350,000 150,932,746	928,587,000 158,950,878	1,041,042,000 168,696,998	1,218,316,000 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	902,850,000 149,311,209	956,818,000 156,110,414	1,054,027,000 164,890,568	1,148,733,002 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-54,500,000 -964,173	-28,231,000 -643,601.5	-12,985,000 -116,254	69,582,998 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-6.42% -0.62	-3.04% -0.29	-1.25% 0.18	5.71% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for COOPER UNIVERSITY 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	82,885,000 5,089,215	82,476,000 4,572,541	110,397,000 5,268,134	0 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	0 370,813	0 309,361.5	-- 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ 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	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ 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	0	0	--
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ 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	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	-- 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	82,885,000	82,476,000	110,397,000	--	--
Total income ? Median	28,385,000 6,586,430	54,245,000 6,767,106	97,412,000 8,419,950	69,582,998 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	28,385,000 6,043,842	54,245,000 5,845,112	97,412,000 7,606,259	69,582,998 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	3.04810% 4.62%	5.36515% 4.42%	8.46002% 5.16%	5.71141% 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 COOPER UNIVERSITY 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	148,860,185 23,241,334	155,175,717 23,709,545	160,935,917 24,248,380	159,598,356 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	148,860,185 21,577,146	155,175,717 22,041,594	160,935,917 22,722,063	159,598,356 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	0 1,845,420	0 1,757,392	0 1,738,842	0 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	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	84,621,175 11,160,864	85,528,974 11,987,345	83,302,892 12,926,866	74,695,747 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	84,621,175 10,918,923	85,528,974 11,706,976	83,302,892 12,615,917	74,695,747 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	27,378,214 3,284,314	28,790,773 3,250,551	31,839,275 3,386,837	32,801,743 3,360,806	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	6,810,726 594,888	6,882,521 595,761	6,724,047 577,894	6,302,683 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	5,060,074 582,572	6,072,831 538,116	699,709 212,434	794,449 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	16,827,338 3,662,910	15,053,419 3,730,911	14,381,747 4,081,319	39,564,749 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	12,782,029 2,654,636	13,973,042 2,940,659	18,197,544 3,380,215	20,716,831 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	26,027,900 5,147,790	22,208,068 5,337,617	24,979,492 5,711,082	29,734,188 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.88% 3.24	2.32% 3.12	2.37% 3.21	2.59% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	42,855,238 9,489,989	37,261,487 9,424,297	39,361,239 10,120,158	69,298,937 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	311,958,888 52,142,039	329,365,219 54,485,252	360,504,236 57,395,589	391,657,760 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	34.55 36.68	34.42 36.56	34.20 36.37	34.09 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	19,389,316 2,598,592	20,497,938 2,686,824	23,627,637 2,753,773	25,551,121 2,937,156	-- 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	686,444 1,186,494	704,575 1,204,885	704,575 1,279,653	-- 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	56,652 1,449,244	1,060,759 1,475,986	1,306,614 1,563,078	995,422 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	938.00 22,725	21,081.00 23,018.5	23,583.00 24,503.48	18,513.00 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	60.40 64.67	50.32 64.53	55.40 65.06	53.77 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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