As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

CMS id: 330094
71 PROSPECT AVENUE, HUDSON NY 12534. County: COLUMBIA
System: ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER
CBSA: Hudson, NY

The 192-bed, acute-care hospital had $-18,073,731 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 4.40307% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.78% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $9,014,608 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	85 118	86 118	161 119.5	175 118	183 119
Total beds Median	116 162	117 162	192 162	206 162	192 163.5
FTEs Median	1,177.65 788.06	1,166.00 793.42	1,215.40 806.03	1,073.50 787.61	1,066.10 804.34

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	143,944,401 150,932,746	140,588,623 158,950,878	140,408,447 168,696,998	127,237,278 163,454,693	143,746,380 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	158,825,471 149,311,209	160,841,550 156,110,414	163,040,834 164,890,568	155,289,452 166,516,854	161,820,111 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-14,881,070 -964,173	-20,252,927 -643,601.5	-22,632,387 -116,254	-28,052,174 -5,025,862	-18,073,731 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-10.34% -0.62	-14.41% -0.29	-16.12% 0.18	-22.05% -5.07	-12.57% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for COLUMBIA MEMORIAL 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	14,264,003 5,089,215	19,149,950 4,572,541	23,223,879 5,268,134	39,199,226 13,092,619	25,526,947 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	6,106,057 206,870.5	23,182,577 194,343	8,548,176 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	618,598 370,813	955,410 309,361.5	816,739 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	6,413	6,--21	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	1,162	8,541	501	2,412	280
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	6,567,540	8,939,098	8,588,611	6,970,670	5,993,596
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	127,374	108,242	96,014	78,952	69,111
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	720,568	677,718	656,191	410,236	400,219
⊳ 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	1,916	3,081	3,903	403	91
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	21,978	20,773	20,620	19,064	18,093
⊳ 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	26,197	21,996	8,097	776	2,340
⊳ 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	6,651,248	9,196,611	6,896,261	7,297,261	9,626,730
Total income ? Median	-617,067 6,586,430	-1,102,977 6,767,106	591,492 8,419,950	11,147,052 8,094,175	7,453,216 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	-2,055,767 146,289.5	-3,257,861 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	1,438,700 6,043,842	2,154,884 5,845,112	591,492 7,606,259	11,147,052 7,283,041	7,453,216 14,957,241
Net margin Median	0.90937% 4.62%	1.34901% 4.42%	0.36148% 5.16%	6.69748% 5.2%	4.40307% 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 COLUMBIA MEMORIAL 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	17,842,067 23,241,334	18,642,478 23,709,545	17,750,718 24,248,380	14,698,015 22,858,541	15,283,412 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	16,248,621 21,577,146	16,675,462 22,041,594	15,542,988 22,722,063	14,272,668 21,570,441	15,283,412 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	1,593,446 1,845,420	1,967,016 1,757,392	2,207,730 1,738,842	425,347 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	15,749,789 11,160,864	15,632,944 11,987,345	17,377,697 12,926,866	13,222,679 11,884,480	13,960,733 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	15,749,789 10,918,923	15,632,944 11,706,976	17,377,697 12,615,917	13,222,679 11,458,116	13,960,733 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	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	398,645 594,888	364,941 595,761	363,092 577,894	388,467 542,168	437,566 549,667
Outlier Median	239,537 582,572	174,758 538,116	13,997 212,434	29,264 126,559	58,191 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	5,901,601 3,662,910	7,160,371 3,730,911	10,799,847 4,081,319	10,847,341 4,643,908	9,014,608 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,650,073 2,654,636	2,049,771 2,940,659	2,128,097 3,380,215	2,081,095 3,488,738	1,898,441 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	2,413,676 5,147,790	3,471,678 5,337,617	5,853,265 5,711,082	3,379,571 5,923,418	2,877,306 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.52% 3.24	2.16% 3.12	3.59% 3.21	2.18% 3.3	1.78% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	8,315,277 9,489,989	10,632,049 9,424,297	16,653,112 10,120,158	14,226,912 11,171,337	11,891,914 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	78,114,287 52,142,039	77,464,480 54,485,252	77,705,676 57,395,589	74,922,861 58,830,919	77,966,694 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	49.36 36.68	48.33 36.56	47.66 36.37	48.25 35.93	48.43 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	2,307,468 1,449,244	2,115,179 1,475,986	2,394,558 1,563,078	0 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	33,017.29 22,725	29,439.57 23,018.5	33,657.00 24,503.48	0.00 25,026.5	0.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	69.89 64.67	71.85 64.53	71.15 65.06	0.00 68.97	0.00 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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