As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PENN HIGHLANDS HUNTINGDON

CMS id: 390056
1225 WARM SPRINGS AVENUE, HUNTINGDON PA 16652. County: HUNTINGDON
System: PENN HIGHLANDS HEALTHCARE INC
CBSA: Huntingdon, PA

The 71-bed, acute-care hospital had $-3,002,592 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 10.86478% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 2.66% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $491,200 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	42 118	42 118	50 119.5	50 118	64 119
Total beds Median	62 162	62 162	71 162	71 162	71 163.5
FTEs Median	374.48 788.06	383.93 793.42	358.38 806.03	317.78 787.61	288.54 804.34

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	45,917,645 150,932,746	47,759,105 158,950,878	47,006,138 168,696,998	44,871,071 163,454,693	0 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	48,350,087 149,311,209	53,096,119 156,110,414	51,535,725 164,890,568	47,873,663 166,516,854	47,485,259 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-2,432,442 -964,173	-5,337,014 -643,601.5	-4,529,587 -116,254	-3,002,592 -5,025,862	-47,485,259 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-5.30% -0.62	-11.17% -0.29	-9.64% 0.18	-6.69% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PENN HIGHLANDS HUNTINGDON 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	7,182,980 5,089,215	4,279,142 4,572,541	4,874,445 5,268,134	8,580,809 13,092,619	0 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	6,986 224,999	0 199,009	393,835 206,870.5	363,373 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	372,314 299,524	277,175 188,688.5	401,222 370,813	79,151 309,361.5	0 375,329
⊳ Line 8: Revenue from telephone service	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL	NULL
⊳ Line 9: Revenue from tv and radio	--	--	--	--	--
⊳ Line 10: Purchase discounts	7,029	535	1,041	77	0
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	7,658	2,606	-326	14,389	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	203,110	210,557	0	0	0
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	810	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	1,200	4,874	7,523	1,067	0
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	706	441	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	252,317	260,737	14,001	274,138	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	6,330,850	3,522,217	4,057,149	7,848,614	--
Total income ? Median	4,750,538 6,586,430	-1,057,872 6,767,106	344,858 8,419,950	5,578,217 8,094,175	-47,485,259 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	389,396 146,289.5	1,629,486 164,857	-881,083 89,880.5	-229,211 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	4,361,142 6,043,842	-2,687,358 5,845,112	1,225,941 7,606,259	5,807,428 7,283,041	-47,485,259 14,957,241
Net margin Median	8.21298% 4.62%	-5.16420% 4.42%	2.36301% 5.16%	10.86478% 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 PENN HIGHLANDS HUNTINGDON 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	6,265,868 23,241,334	6,687,553 23,709,545	5,500,420 24,248,380	5,930,085 22,858,541	4,793,172 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	5,501,902 21,577,146	5,717,467 22,041,594	4,854,689 22,722,063	5,080,134 21,570,441	4,793,172 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	763,966 1,845,420	970,086 1,757,392	645,731 1,738,842	849,951 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	5,140,573 11,160,864	6,085,558 11,987,345	5,339,854 12,926,866	5,376,145 11,884,480	4,467,477 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	5,140,573 10,918,923	6,085,558 11,706,976	5,339,854 12,615,917	5,376,145 11,458,116	4,467,477 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	81,472 594,888	363,568 595,761	67,156 577,894	36,998 542,168	97,321 549,667
Outlier Median	20,369 582,572	129,160 538,116	80,978 212,434	81 126,559	4,265 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	1,579,449 3,662,910	2,044,151 3,730,911	1,395,922 4,081,319	491,200 4,643,908	1,232,767 4,389,147
Charity care Median	88,285 2,654,636	181,207 2,940,659	557,767 3,380,215	503,721 3,488,738	353,077 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	959,944 5,147,790	1,457,383 5,337,617	1,323,571 5,711,082	1,273,797 5,923,418	971,206 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.99% 3.24	2.74% 3.12	2.57% 3.21	2.66% 3.3	2.05% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	2,539,393 9,489,989	3,501,534 9,424,297	2,719,493 10,120,158	1,764,997 11,171,337	2,203,973 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	21,868,358 52,142,039	22,450,381 54,485,252	21,702,659 57,395,589	18,088,872 58,830,919	17,583,408 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	45.23 36.68	42.28 36.56	42.11 36.37	37.78 35.93	37.03 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	637,272 1,449,244	0 1,475,986	800,300 1,563,078	330,515 1,721,954	0 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	14,348.00 22,725	0.00 23,018.5	9,507.00 24,503.48	5,261.00 25,026.5	0.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	44.42 64.67	0.00 64.53	84.18 65.06	62.82 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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