As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

PH LAURENS COUNTY HOSPITAL

CMS id: 420038
22725 HIGHWAY 76 EAST, CLINTON SC 29235. County: LAURENS
System: PRISMA HEALTH UPSTATE
CBSA: Greenville-Anderson, SC

The 38-bed, acute-care hospital had $69,835,536 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 40.84380% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 8.92% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $1,550,676 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	35 118	35 118	39 119.5	30 118	30 119
Total beds Median	57 162	57 162	61 162	38 162	38 163.5
FTEs Median	381.80 788.06	453.10 793.42	438.92 806.03	368.98 787.61	540.40 804.34

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	65,887,204 150,932,746	64,573,467 158,950,878	64,383,564 168,696,998	70,925,079 163,454,693	170,947,649 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	82,189,989 149,311,209	78,550,909 156,110,414	80,735,071 164,890,568	82,127,144 166,516,854	101,112,113 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-16,302,785 -964,173	-13,977,442 -643,601.5	-16,351,507 -116,254	-11,202,065 -5,025,862	69,835,536 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-24.74% -0.62	-21.65% -0.29	-25.40% 0.18	-15.79% -5.07	40.85% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for PH LAURENS COUNTY 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	400,600 5,089,215	386,138 4,572,541	410,706 5,268,134	11,295,637 13,092,619	-283,307 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	3,875 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	0 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	0 370,813	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	35,543	65,395	12,722	4,010	-9,910
⊳ 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	192,760	176,221	175,466	152,586	-143,392
⊳ 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	72	20	0	20	-20
⊳ 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	3,233	2,328	1,172	0	0
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	52,850	75,786	61,631	0	-3
⊳ 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	116,142	62,513	159,715	11,139,021	-129,982
Total income ? Median	-15,902,185 6,586,430	-13,591,304 6,767,106	-15,940,801 8,419,950	93,572 8,094,175	69,552,229 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	-153,580 31,473.5
Net income Median	-15,902,185 6,043,842	-13,591,304 5,845,112	-15,940,801 7,606,259	93,572 7,283,041	69,705,809 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-23.98961% 4.62%	-20.92270% 4.42%	-24.60218% 5.16%	0.11381% 5.2%	40.84380% 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 PH LAURENS COUNTY 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	10,805,334 23,241,334	9,683,781 23,709,545	9,763,035 24,248,380	11,329,239 22,858,541	12,538,755 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	10,127,975 21,577,146	8,964,831 22,041,594	9,581,618 22,722,063	11,329,239 21,570,441	12,538,755 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	677,359 1,203,033	718,950 1,215,295	181,417 1,313,657	0 1,365,298	0 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	6,785,397 11,160,864	7,507,260 11,987,345	7,849,502 12,926,866	6,995,649 11,884,480	11,019,046 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	3,978,065 10,918,923	4,096,329 11,706,976	4,408,138 12,615,917	3,408,367 11,458,116	3,126,826 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	2,807,332 618,038	3,410,931 697,279	3,441,364 690,232	3,587,282 684,010	7,892,220 670,558
⊳ 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	195,576 594,888	250,703 595,761	169,257 577,894	172,864 542,168	154,742 549,667
Outlier Median	234,572 582,572	103,527 538,116	65,503 212,434	6,107 126,559	40,102 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	0 3,662,910	1,301,458 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	1,550,676 4,389,147
Charity care Median	4,332,755 2,654,636	3,780,551 2,940,659	4,249,201 3,380,215	4,652,256 3,488,738	4,707,364 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	9,709,371 5,147,790	8,256,760 5,337,617	8,677,845 5,711,082	9,479,705 5,923,418	9,015,390 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	11.81% 3.24	10.51% 3.12	10.75% 3.21	11.54% 3.3	8.92% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	9,709,371 9,489,989	9,558,218 9,424,297	8,677,845 10,120,158	9,479,705 11,171,337	10,566,066 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	23,025,174 52,142,039	24,653,871 54,485,252	24,806,075 57,395,589	26,516,881 58,830,919	35,611,553 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	30.73 36.68	35.31 36.56	34.62 36.37	36.52 35.93	39.53 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	4,049,091 1,449,244	2,866,864 1,475,986	1,877,908 1,563,078	1,771,923 1,721,954	5,168,658 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	72,674.00 22,725	45,842.00 23,018.5	33,668.09 24,503.48	25,388.00 25,026.5	64,230.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	55.72 64.67	62.54 64.53	55.78 65.06	69.79 68.97	80.47 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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