As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

LAKE CITY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

CMS id: 420066
258 NORTH RON MCNAIR BLVD, LAKE CITY SC 29560. County: FLORENCE
System: --
CBSA: Florence, SC

The 26-bed, acute-care hospital had $-997,438 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 29.40364% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 13.04% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $0 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	gov	gov	gov	gov	gov
Acute beds Median	26 118	26 118	26 119.5	26 118	26 119
Total beds Median	26 162	26 162	26 162	26 162	26 163.5
FTEs Median	200.34 788.06	208.31 793.42	210.79 806.03	217.15 787.61	218.60 804.34

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	21,722,924 150,932,746	19,432,270 158,950,878	19,158,336 168,696,998	18,816,661 163,454,693	20,820,793 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	18,834,183 149,311,209	19,546,726 156,110,414	19,414,485 164,890,568	20,651,148 166,516,854	21,818,231 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	2,888,741 -964,173	-114,456 -643,601.5	-256,149 -116,254	-1,834,487 -5,025,862	-997,438 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	13.30% -0.62	-0.59% -0.29	-1.34% 0.18	-9.75% -5.07	-4.79% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for LAKE CITY COMMUNITY 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	382,368 5,089,215	183,837 4,572,541	219,518 5,268,134	1,765,051 13,092,619	10,084,809 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	11,356 224,999	9,080 199,009	24,951 206,870.5	6,503 194,343	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	21,576	20,301	22,341	20,403	27,862
⊳ 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	114,709	129,817	138,803	131,192	102,414
⊳ 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	25	20	25	52	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	2,718	3,303	1,890	0	10,739
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	26,710	18,766	20,304	17,961	12,804
⊳ 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	205,274	2,550	11,204	1,588,940	9,930,990
Total income ? Median	3,271,109 6,586,430	69,381 6,767,106	-36,631 8,419,950	-69,436 8,094,175	9,087,371 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	-1 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	3,271,109 6,043,842	69,381 5,845,112	-36,630 7,606,259	-69,436 7,283,041	9,087,371 14,957,241
Net margin Median	14.79785% 4.62%	0.35369% 4.42%	-0.18903% 5.16%	-0.33737% 5.2%	29.40364% 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 LAKE CITY COMMUNITY 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	1,767,335 23,241,334	1,679,047 23,709,545	2,042,739 24,248,380	2,574,724 22,858,541	2,682,284 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	1,767,335 21,577,146	1,679,047 22,041,594	2,042,739 22,722,063	2,574,724 21,570,441	2,682,284 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	3,086,249 11,160,864	2,977,962 11,987,345	2,822,507 12,926,866	2,476,841 11,884,480	2,472,438 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	1,993,420 10,918,923	1,724,659 11,706,976	1,722,892 12,615,917	1,357,693 11,458,116	1,295,141 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	1,092,829 618,038	1,253,303 697,279	1,099,615 690,232	1,119,148 684,010	1,177,297 670,558
⊳ 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	37,093 594,888	12,571 595,761	27,361 577,894	21,113 542,168	24,068 549,667
Outlier Median	4,546 582,572	1,974 538,116	0 212,434	2,006 126,559	274 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	541,510 3,662,910	494,666 3,730,911	877,983 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	46,923 2,654,636	42,894 2,940,659	242,944 3,380,215	192,913 3,488,738	201,217 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	1,634,015 5,147,790	2,455,612 5,337,617	2,037,062 5,711,082	759,157 5,923,418	2,845,360 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	8.68% 3.24	12.56% 3.12	10.49% 3.21	3.68% 3.3	13.04% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	2,175,525 9,489,989	2,950,278 9,424,297	2,915,045 10,120,158	759,157 11,171,337	2,845,360 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	9,710,590 52,142,039	10,838,933 54,485,252	11,132,252 57,395,589	11,718,324 58,830,919	12,350,727 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	51.56 36.68	55.45 36.56	57.34 36.37	56.74 35.93	56.61 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	0 1,449,244	16,873 1,475,986	47,861 1,563,078	30,198 1,721,954	73,382 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	0.00 22,725	288.00 23,018.5	780.25 24,503.48	631.00 25,026.5	1,957.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	0.00 64.67	58.59 64.53	61.34 65.06	47.86 68.97	37.50 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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