As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE HOSPITALS

CMS id: 340075
2201 SOUTH STERLING STREET, MORGANTON NC 28655. County: BURKE
System: CMHA D/B/A ATRIUM HEALTH
CBSA: Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

The 156-bed, acute-care hospital had $6,958,933 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 11.96711% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 3.96% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $29,606 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	136 118	136 118	136 119.5	136 118	136 119
Total beds Median	156 162	156 162	156 162	156 162	156 163.5
FTEs Median	1,341.69 788.06	1,360.75 793.42	1,303.13 806.03	1,262.77 787.61	1,197.71 804.34

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	202,755,971 150,932,746	207,568,952 158,950,878	219,261,241 168,696,998	212,512,723 163,454,693	249,328,425 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	201,356,321 149,311,209	204,112,836 156,110,414	205,945,334 164,890,568	204,145,994 166,516,854	242,369,492 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	1,399,650 -964,173	3,456,116 -643,601.5	13,315,907 -116,254	8,366,729 -5,025,862	6,958,933 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	0.69% -0.62	1.67% -0.29	6.07% 0.18	3.94% -5.07	2.79% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE HOSPITALS 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	40,342,968 5,089,215	6,566,535 4,572,541	50,392,694 5,268,134	51,299,870 13,092,619	25,988,547 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	188,814 224,999	44,794 199,009	49,652 206,870.5	64,946 194,343	93,290 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	5,036,668 299,524	8,409,167 188,688.5	6,559,214 370,813	5,867,895 309,361.5	8,653,001 375,329
⊳ 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	296,424	388,840	334,117	261,676	258,119
⊳ 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	1	1,418	2,946	233,966	318,450
⊳ 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	34,821,061	-2,277,684	43,446,765	44,871,387	16,665,687
Total income ? Median	41,742,618 6,586,430	10,022,651 6,767,106	63,708,601 8,419,950	59,666,599 8,094,175	32,947,480 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	41,742,618 6,043,842	10,022,651 5,845,112	63,708,601 7,606,259	59,666,599 7,283,041	32,947,480 14,957,241
Net margin Median	17.17104% 4.62%	4.68052% 4.42%	23.62606% 5.16%	22.61704% 5.2%	11.96711% 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 BLUE RIDGE HEALTHCARE HOSPITALS 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	24,142,914 23,241,334	23,246,791 23,709,545	22,048,522 24,248,380	20,870,958 22,858,541	20,267,117 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	24,142,914 21,577,146	23,246,791 22,041,594	22,048,522 22,722,063	20,870,958 21,570,441	20,267,117 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	20,817,708 11,160,864	21,019,267 11,987,345	22,651,239 12,926,866	20,073,631 11,884,480	18,908,331 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	20,817,708 10,918,923	21,019,267 11,706,976	22,651,239 12,615,917	20,073,631 11,458,116	18,908,331 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	3,024,134 3,284,314	2,900,991 3,250,551	2,754,475 3,386,837	2,346,084 3,360,806	2,239,918 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	650,617 594,888	653,025 595,761	589,819 577,894	552,357 542,168	474,641 549,667
Outlier Median	132,447 582,572	250,057 538,116	62,778 212,434	58,245 126,559	85,774 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	667,573 3,662,910	148,372 3,730,911	137,339 4,081,319	96,049 4,643,908	29,606 4,389,147
Charity care Median	8,311,168 2,654,636	7,601,705 2,940,659	7,392,096 3,380,215	6,681,452 3,488,738	5,704,406 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	13,324,309 5,147,790	12,328,465 5,337,617	12,384,504 5,711,082	11,254,332 5,923,418	9,593,913 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	6.62% 3.24	6.04% 3.12	6.01% 3.21	5.51% 3.3	3.96% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	13,991,882 9,489,989	12,476,837 9,424,297	12,521,843 10,120,158	11,350,381 11,171,337	9,623,519 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	82,329,525 52,142,039	84,309,486 54,485,252	81,558,291 57,395,589	80,108,066 58,830,919	92,220,063 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	40.89 36.68	41.31 36.56	39.60 36.37	39.24 35.93	38.05 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	1,917,070 2,598,592	1,895,443 2,686,824	1,745,408 2,753,773	1,568,731 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	1,529,822 1,449,244	633,117 1,475,986	729,110 1,563,078	413,594 1,721,954	5,722,986 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	20,962.87 22,725	6,812.35 23,018.5	7,578.80 24,503.48	4,547.21 25,026.5	54,181.08 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	72.98 64.67	92.94 64.53	96.20 65.06	90.96 68.97	105.63 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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