As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

VIDANT BEAUFORT HOSPITAL

CMS id: 340186
628 E. 12TH STREET, WASHINGTON NC 27889. County: BEAUFORT
System: VIDANT HEALTH
CBSA: Washington, NC

The 83-bed, acute-care hospital had $298,515 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 2.73531% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 7.37% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $35,688 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	64 118	64 118	64 119.5	58 118	72 119
Total beds Median	91 162	91 162	91 162	69 162	83 163.5
FTEs Median	426.36 788.06	472.78 793.42	471.55 806.03	495.98 787.61	459.35 804.34

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	72,856,706 150,932,746	73,943,096 158,950,878	83,867,507 168,696,998	80,421,879 163,454,693	94,768,622 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	76,526,439 149,311,209	79,350,530 156,110,414	88,679,624 164,890,568	85,267,663 166,516,854	94,470,107 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-3,669,733 -964,173	-5,407,434 -643,601.5	-4,812,117 -116,254	-4,845,784 -5,025,862	298,515 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-5.04% -0.62	-7.31% -0.29	-5.74% 0.18	-6.03% -5.07	0.31% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for VIDANT BEAUFORT 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	3,033,820 5,089,215	3,436,566 4,572,541	2,256,613 5,268,134	8,170,353 13,092,619	2,358,201 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	100,000 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	-405,826 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	81,981 299,524	37,986 188,688.5	13,800 370,813	35,291 309,361.5	42,444 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	7,060	5,709	954	875	69
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	238,181	134,257	51,400	70,631	116,757
⊳ 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	476,193	578,355	539,699	407,169	451,951
⊳ 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	51,294	48,733	5,981	25,335	30,354
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	146	228	461	1,078	0
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	89,312	81,398	103,531	69,838	50,065
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	89,699	239,443	328,292	289,332	344,730
⊳ 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	1,999,954	2,210,457	1,212,495	7,270,804	1,727,657
Total income ? Median	-635,913 6,586,430	-1,970,868 6,767,106	-2,555,504 8,419,950	3,324,569 8,094,175	2,656,716 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	31,083 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-635,913 6,043,842	-1,970,868 5,845,112	-2,555,504 7,606,259	3,293,486 7,283,041	2,656,716 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-0.83793% 4.62%	-2.54701% 4.42%	-2.96723% 5.16%	3.71758% 5.2%	2.73531% 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 VIDANT BEAUFORT 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	12,779,585 23,241,334	13,209,850 23,709,545	14,957,972 24,248,380	12,656,384 22,858,541	14,276,593 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	11,765,890 21,577,146	12,813,364 22,041,594	14,139,009 22,722,063	12,656,384 21,570,441	14,276,593 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	1,013,695 1,845,420	396,486 1,757,392	818,963 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	14,041,398 11,160,864	13,864,482 11,987,345	15,395,530 12,926,866	14,351,380 11,884,480	14,534,321 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	14,041,398 10,918,923	13,864,482 11,706,976	15,395,530 12,615,917	14,351,380 11,458,116	14,534,321 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	300,329 594,888	302,182 595,761	284,134 577,894	271,217 542,168	279,428 549,667
Outlier Median	127,819 582,572	95,551 538,116	19,672 212,434	43,793 126,559	44,577 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	3,764,500 3,662,910	1,948,300 3,730,911	2,262,623 4,081,319	612,940 4,643,908	35,688 4,389,147
Charity care Median	3,296,447 2,654,636	4,865,400 2,940,659	4,959,287 3,380,215	5,051,269 3,488,738	4,126,709 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	7,169,702 5,147,790	7,615,300 5,337,617	7,555,329 5,711,082	7,743,673 5,923,418	6,958,161 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	9.37% 3.24	9.60% 3.12	8.52% 3.21	9.08% 3.3	7.37% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	10,934,202 9,489,989	9,563,600 9,424,297	9,817,952 10,120,158	8,356,613 11,171,337	6,993,849 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	22,636,865 52,142,039	24,997,543 54,485,252	26,431,276 57,395,589	25,497,379 58,830,919	27,515,203 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	32.03 36.68	34.07 36.56	32.48 36.37	31.65 35.93	31.36 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	515,876 1,449,244	754,507 1,475,986	431,902 1,563,078	1,007,106 1,721,954	3,308,546 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	4,488.00 22,725	10,278.00 23,018.5	6,028.00 24,503.48	14,929.00 25,026.5	40,261.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	114.95 64.67	73.41 64.53	71.65 65.06	67.46 68.97	82.18 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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