As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

SOUTH AUSTIN MEDICAL CENTER

CMS id: 450713
901 WEST BEN WHITE BLVD, AUSTIN TX 78704. County: TRAVIS
System: HCA
CBSA: Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX

The 334-bed, acute-care hospital had $75,131,567 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 21.35027% in fiscal year 2020, the latest year available.
It spent 14.78% 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	--
Ownership	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	forprofit	--
Acute beds Median	252 118	252 118	287 119.5	287 118	-- 119
Total beds Median	299 162	299 162	334 162	334 162	-- 163.5
FTEs Median	1,368.89 788.06	1,465.66 793.42	1,563.40 806.03	1,472.87 787.61	-- 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	328,058,993 150,932,746	367,505,985 158,950,878	401,672,760 168,696,998	386,364,608 163,454,693	-- 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	274,549,574 149,311,209	294,438,560 156,110,414	317,595,582 164,890,568	311,233,041 166,516,854	-- 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	53,509,419 -964,173	73,067,425 -643,601.5	84,077,178 -116,254	75,131,567 -5,025,862	-- -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	16.31% -0.62	19.88% -0.29	20.93% 0.18	19.45% -5.07	--% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for SOUTH AUSTIN 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	1,790,954 5,089,215	2,083,301 4,572,541	1,936,664 5,268,134	9,355,805 13,092,619	-- 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	0 224,999	0 199,009	0 206,870.5	0 194,343	-- 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	0 299,524	0 188,688.5	0 370,813	0 309,361.5	-- 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	--
⊳ Line 11: Rebates and refunds of expenses	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 12: Parking lot receipts	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 13: Revenue from laundry and linen service	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 14: Revenue from meals sold to emplyees and guests	1,323,427	1,540,926	1,724,765	1,029,071	--
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 17: Revenue from sale of drugs to other than patients	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	145	-95	2,106	0	--
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	0	0	0	0	--
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	27,913	31,871	0	0	--
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	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	-- 1,597,664
⊳ Sum Line 24	439,469	510,599	209,793	8,326,734	--
Total income ? Median	55,300,373 6,586,430	75,150,726 6,767,106	86,013,842 8,419,950	84,487,372 8,094,175	-- 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	25 89,880.5	12 106,761	-- 31,473.5
Net income Median	55,300,373 6,043,842	75,150,726 5,845,112	86,013,817 7,606,259	84,487,360 7,283,041	-- 14,957,241
Net margin Median	16.76531% 4.62%	20.33358% 4.42%	21.31115% 5.16%	21.35027% 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 SOUTH AUSTIN 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	64,227,711 23,241,334	70,103,829 23,709,545	69,281,755 24,248,380	66,337,006 22,858,541	-- 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	64,227,711 21,577,146	70,103,829 22,041,594	69,281,755 22,722,063	66,337,006 21,570,441	-- 22,140,684
⊳ Swingbeds ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act payments (TEFRA) ⊳ Median	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	-- 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	0 3,865,578	-- 3,983,889
⊳ Long-term care hospital (LTCH) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Critical-access hospitals ⊳ Median	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	-- 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	18,889,762 11,160,864	20,622,883 11,987,345	21,833,203 12,926,866	19,184,202 11,884,480	-- 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	18,889,762 10,918,923	20,622,883 11,706,976	21,833,203 12,615,917	19,184,202 11,458,116	-- 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	0 1,282,808	0 1,407,728	0 1,341,512	0 1,407,046	-- 1,476,867
⊳ Community mental health clinics (CMHC) ⊳ Median	0 --	0 --	0 --	0 --	-- --
⊳ Rural health clinics ⊳ Median	0 618,038	0 697,279	0 690,232	0 684,010	-- 670,558
⊳ Other federally qualified health clinics ⊳ Median	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	-- 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	703,894 594,888	1,818,832 595,761	817,112 577,894	698,571 542,168	-- 549,667
Outlier Median	1,901,170 582,572	1,428,285 538,116	271,734 212,434	306,540 126,559	-- 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	133,868 3,662,910	271,617 3,730,911	14,400 4,081,319	0 4,643,908	-- 4,389,147
Charity care Median	31,030,449 2,654,636	36,988,693 2,940,659	40,957,249 3,380,215	43,260,696 3,488,738	-- 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	34,416,726 5,147,790	40,404,113 5,337,617	43,602,642 5,711,082	46,001,171 5,923,418	-- 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	12.54% 3.24	13.72% 3.12	13.73% 3.21	14.78% 3.3	--% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	34,550,594 9,489,989	40,675,730 9,424,297	43,617,042 10,120,158	46,001,171 11,171,337	-- 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	89,638,215 52,142,039	100,246,885 54,485,252	107,477,318 57,395,589	103,902,299 58,830,919	-- 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	32.63 36.68	34.03 36.56	33.83 36.37	33.36 35.93	-- 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	0 2,598,592	0 2,686,824	0 2,753,773	0 2,937,156	-- 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	0 1,251,927	0 1,186,494	0 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	-- 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	11,313,715 1,449,244	7,831,367 1,475,986	6,554,955 1,563,078	6,249,714 1,721,954	-- 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	200,235.25 22,725	124,819.45 23,018.5	92,391.00 24,503.48	109,858.02 25,026.5	-- 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	56.50 64.67	62.74 64.53	70.95 65.06	56.89 68.97	-- 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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