As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

METHODIST WILLOWBROOK HOSPITAL

CMS id: 450844
18220 TOMBALL PARKWAY HOSPITAL, HOUSTON TX 77070. County: HARRIS
System: THE METHODIST HOSPITAL-CORPORATE DI
CBSA: Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX

The 346-bed, acute-care hospital had $107,537,066 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 17.59316% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 6.85% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $38,497 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	281 118	281 118	269 119.5	314 118	314 119
Total beds Median	313 162	313 162	301 162	346 162	346 163.5
FTEs Median	1,914.92 788.06	1,833.72 793.42	1,937.00 806.03	1,999.15 787.61	2,116.50 804.34

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	391,955,664 150,932,746	422,565,607 158,950,878	479,064,266 168,696,998	472,054,008 163,454,693	619,412,569 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	352,857,876 149,311,209	367,447,034 156,110,414	402,438,472 164,890,568	443,641,439 166,516,854	511,875,503 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	39,097,788 -964,173	55,118,573 -643,601.5	76,625,794 -116,254	28,412,569 -5,025,862	107,537,066 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	9.98% -0.62	13.04% -0.29	15.99% 0.18	6.02% -5.07	17.36% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for METHODIST WILLOWBROOK 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	-1,468,127 5,089,215	-378,819 4,572,541	1,025,811 5,268,134	491,463 13,092,619	1,743,991 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	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	1,732,198	1,568,696	1,806,506	1,251,906	1,497,172
⊳ Line 15: Revenue from rental of living quarters	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 16: Revenue from sale of medical and surgical supplies	0	-441	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	4,448	0	5,019	4,303	4,391
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	11,920	16,650	28,792	17,159	29,647
⊳ Line 20: Revenue from gifts, flowers, coffee shops, canteen	46,807	48,067	60,354	18,005	12,644
⊳ Line 21: Rental of vending machines	39,269	41,388	30,598	28,263	15,178
⊳ Line 22: Rental of hospital space	24,995	14,000	16,000	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	-3,327,764	-2,067,179	-921,458	-828,173	184,959
Total income ? Median	37,629,661 6,586,430	54,739,754 6,767,106	77,651,605 8,419,950	28,904,032 8,094,175	109,281,057 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	37,629,661 6,043,842	54,739,754 5,845,112	77,651,605 7,606,259	28,904,032 7,283,041	109,281,057 14,957,241
Net margin Median	9.63658% 4.62%	12.96577% 4.42%	16.17438% 5.16%	6.11667% 5.2%	17.59316% 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 METHODIST WILLOWBROOK 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	49,450,594 23,241,334	51,554,957 23,709,545	59,020,618 24,248,380	61,135,067 22,858,541	67,482,760 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	49,450,594 21,577,146	51,554,957 22,041,594	59,020,618 22,722,063	61,135,067 21,570,441	67,482,760 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	17,953,208 11,160,864	21,181,042 11,987,345	23,367,432 12,926,866	24,698,379 11,884,480	29,458,919 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	17,953,208 10,918,923	21,181,042 11,706,976	23,367,432 12,615,917	24,698,379 11,458,116	29,458,919 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	1,787,832 594,888	1,230,078 595,761	2,346,211 577,894	2,154,166 542,168	2,015,373 549,667
Outlier Median	2,173,680 582,572	1,884,128 538,116	280,763 212,434	188,486 126,559	449,684 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	5,167 3,662,910	14,106 3,730,911	0 4,081,319	22,619 4,643,908	38,497 4,389,147
Charity care Median	20,460,843 2,654,636	18,867,389 2,940,659	25,909,220 3,380,215	33,448,777 3,488,738	31,163,051 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	25,087,846 5,147,790	26,278,851 5,337,617	31,403,885 5,711,082	36,982,300 5,923,418	35,069,114 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	7.11% 3.24	7.15% 3.12	7.80% 3.21	8.34% 3.3	6.85% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	25,093,013 9,489,989	26,292,957 9,424,297	31,403,885 10,120,158	37,004,919 11,171,337	35,107,611 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	136,439,777 52,142,039	134,155,520 54,485,252	148,436,491 57,395,589	158,423,621 58,830,919	178,498,717 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.67 36.68	36.51 36.56	36.88 36.37	35.71 35.93	34.87 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	1,386,356 1,449,244	2,579,909 1,475,986	3,186,359 1,563,078	5,422,839 1,721,954	13,621,889 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	20,983.00 22,725	24,610.00 23,018.5	32,368.00 24,503.48	60,437.00 25,026.5	117,445.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	66.07 64.67	104.83 64.53	98.44 65.06	89.73 68.97	115.99 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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