As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 390096
2500 BERNVILLE RD, READING PA 19603. County: BERKS
System: PENN STATE HEALTH
CBSA: Reading, PA

The 180-bed, acute-care hospital had $24,819,807 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 11.62110% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.71% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $6,576,222 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	108 118	144 118	144 119.5	144 118	144 119
Total beds Median	144 162	180 162	180 162	180 162	180 163.5
FTEs Median	1,075.37 788.06	1,025.34 793.42	1,142.57 806.03	1,179.03 787.61	1,219.56 804.34

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	214,074,309 150,932,746	224,531,280 158,950,878	237,621,017 168,696,998	216,809,225 163,454,693	278,620,350 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	209,051,432 149,311,209	207,493,136 156,110,414	223,362,160 164,890,568	234,839,843 166,516,854	253,800,543 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	5,022,877 -964,173	17,038,144 -643,601.5	14,258,857 -116,254	-18,030,618 -5,025,862	24,819,807 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	2.35% -0.62	7.59% -0.29	6.00% 0.18	-8.32% -5.07	8.91% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER 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	7,104,953 5,089,215	6,784,787 4,572,541	7,759,761 5,268,134	17,741,968 13,092,619	8,552,878 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	308,519 224,999	425,482 199,009	593,035 206,870.5	161,812 194,343	707,675 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	44,065 299,524	14,889 188,688.5	-3,747 370,813	0 309,361.5	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	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	3,014	4,640	603	1,188,519	1,145,257
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	1,182,240	1,182,003
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	12,224	52
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	2,642,193	2,646,506	2,719,536	2,950,702	3,175,246
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	2,468	2,588	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	84,104	76,472	22,450	0	0
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	29,271 1,987,202	1,069,833 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	4,020,590	3,614,210	4,427,884	12,217,200	1,272,812
Total income ? Median	12,127,830 6,586,430	23,822,931 6,767,106	22,018,618 8,419,950	-288,650 8,094,175	33,372,685 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	12,127,830 6,043,842	23,822,931 5,845,112	22,018,618 7,606,259	-288,650 7,283,041	33,372,685 14,957,241
Net margin Median	5.48326% 4.62%	10.29887% 4.42%	8.97324% 5.16%	-0.12306% 5.2%	11.62110% 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 ST. JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER 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	31,734,182 23,241,334	31,865,796 23,709,545	28,475,640 24,248,380	26,256,451 22,858,541	27,584,276 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	31,734,182 21,577,146	31,865,796 22,041,594	28,475,640 22,722,063	26,256,451 21,570,441	27,584,276 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	17,309,004 11,160,864	19,270,103 11,987,345	18,798,515 12,926,866	19,687,818 11,884,480	22,073,776 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	17,309,004 10,918,923	19,270,103 11,706,976	18,798,515 12,615,917	19,687,818 11,458,116	22,073,776 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	2,944,953 3,284,314	2,838,187 3,250,551	2,969,644 3,386,837	2,961,439 3,360,806	3,061,200 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	610,964 594,888	737,716 595,761	545,874 577,894	446,106 542,168	474,598 549,667
Outlier Median	649,166 582,572	674,923 538,116	533,272 212,434	240,147 126,559	282,435 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	3,071,383 3,662,910	7,257,601 3,730,911	11,554,344 4,081,319	9,717,327 4,643,908	6,576,222 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,934,724 2,654,636	3,638,679 2,940,659	3,224,418 3,380,215	4,129,406 3,488,738	4,182,465 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	3,765,784 5,147,790	5,652,986 5,337,617	5,985,724 5,711,082	7,031,251 5,923,418	6,883,992 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.80% 3.24	2.72% 3.12	2.68% 3.21	2.99% 3.3	2.71% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	6,837,167 9,489,989	12,910,587 9,424,297	17,540,068 10,120,158	16,748,578 11,171,337	13,460,214 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	67,772,072 52,142,039	66,444,675 54,485,252	74,686,459 57,395,589	81,224,388 58,830,919	87,990,954 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	32.42 36.68	32.02 36.56	33.44 36.37	34.59 35.93	34.67 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	3,183,920 2,598,592	3,193,052 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	2,153,900 1,449,244	883,579 1,475,986	2,535,922 1,563,078	2,514,923 1,721,954	2,197,498 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	36,492.00 22,725	11,891.00 23,018.5	34,492.00 24,503.48	32,913.00 25,026.5	23,231.06 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	59.02 64.67	74.31 64.53	73.52 65.06	76.41 68.97	94.59 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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