As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA

CMS id: 430095
4500 WEST 69TH STREET, SIOUX FALLS SD 57105. County: LINCOLN
System: AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL
CBSA: Sioux Falls, SD

The 53-bed, acute-care hospital had $9,985,062 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 14.12874% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.39% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $17,033 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	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit
Acute beds Median	53 118	53 118	53 119.5	53 118	53 119
Total beds Median	53 162	53 162	53 162	53 162	53 163.5
FTEs Median	471.92 788.06	509.58 793.42	501.38 806.03	521.28 787.61	465.13 804.34

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	104,126,985 150,932,746	108,294,123 158,950,878	115,059,821 168,696,998	112,967,879 163,454,693	126,449,775 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	90,049,272 149,311,209	95,098,273 156,110,414	102,943,048 164,890,568	104,037,005 166,516,854	116,464,713 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	14,077,713 -964,173	13,195,850 -643,601.5	12,116,773 -116,254	8,930,874 -5,025,862	9,985,062 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	13.52% -0.62	12.19% -0.29	10.53% 0.18	7.91% -5.07	7.90% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA 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	3,118,905 5,089,215	3,365,198 4,572,541	4,096,536 5,268,134	7,140,761 13,092,619	9,649,981 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	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	2,196,568	2,530,815	3,051,282	2,978,244	2,822,115
⊳ 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	301,718	340,627	357,649	327,148	307,926
⊳ 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	0	0	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	0	0	0	0	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	620,619	493,756	687,605	3,835,369	6,519,940
Total income ? Median	17,196,618 6,586,430	16,561,048 6,767,106	16,213,309 8,419,950	16,071,635 8,094,175	19,635,043 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	0 89,880.5	-2,375,691 106,761	405,859 31,473.5
Net income Median	17,196,618 6,043,842	16,561,048 5,845,112	16,213,309 7,606,259	18,447,326 7,283,041	19,229,184 14,957,241
Net margin Median	16.03476% 4.62%	14.83176% 4.42%	13.60675% 5.16%	15.35887% 5.2%	14.12874% 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 AVERA HEART HOSPITAL OF SOUTH DAKOTA 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	22,220,750 23,241,334	23,376,032 23,709,545	23,555,238 24,248,380	22,350,497 22,858,541	26,388,745 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	22,220,750 21,577,146	23,376,032 22,041,594	23,555,238 22,722,063	22,350,497 21,570,441	26,388,745 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	21,237,066 11,160,864	22,468,266 11,987,345	22,181,558 12,926,866	21,006,719 11,884,480	23,508,739 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	21,237,066 10,918,923	22,468,266 11,706,976	22,181,558 12,615,917	21,006,719 11,458,116	23,508,739 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	0 594,888	0 595,761	0 577,894	0 542,168	0 549,667
Outlier Median	318,337 582,572	594,617 538,116	461,050 212,434	244,038 126,559	222,615 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	20,699 3,662,910	442,491 3,730,911	7,202 4,081,319	83,645 4,643,908	17,033 4,389,147
Charity care Median	106,261 2,654,636	312,765 2,940,659	128,634 3,380,215	406,781 3,488,738	481,023 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	569,482 5,147,790	1,376,258 5,337,617	1,102,971 5,711,082	1,179,781 5,923,418	1,621,814 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	0.63% 3.24	1.45% 3.12	1.07% 3.21	1.13% 3.3	1.39% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	590,181 9,489,989	1,818,749 9,424,297	1,110,173 10,120,158	1,263,426 11,171,337	1,638,847 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	28,750,432 52,142,039	29,217,629 54,485,252	31,021,992 57,395,589	32,959,081 58,830,919	35,569,111 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	31.93 36.68	30.72 36.56	30.14 36.37	31.68 35.93	30.54 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	139,441 1,449,244	138,935 1,475,986	148,196 1,563,078	173,410 1,721,954	190,957 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	2,721.69 22,725	2,969.31 23,018.5	2,888.57 24,503.48	3,216.57 25,026.5	3,500.01 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	51.23 64.67	46.79 64.53	51.30 65.06	53.91 68.97	54.56 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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