As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

CENTRAL VERMONT HOSPITAL

CMS id: 470001
130 FISHER ROAD, BARRE VT 5641. County: WASHINGTON
System: UVM HEALTH NETWORK
CBSA: Barre, VT

The 88-bed, acute-care hospital had $-71,153,348 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 1.95298% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.14% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $17,981,180 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	62 118	62 118	62 119.5	62 118	74 119
Total beds Median	76 162	76 162	76 162	76 162	88 163.5
FTEs Median	1,344.68 788.06	1,333.16 793.42	1,343.90 806.03	1,354.60 787.61	1,332.82 804.34

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	177,781,784 150,932,746	164,715,726 158,950,878	166,757,113 168,696,998	148,363,220 163,454,693	180,125,766 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	199,603,776 149,311,209	214,854,467 156,110,414	228,415,990 164,890,568	235,847,780 166,516,854	251,279,114 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-21,821,992 -964,173	-50,138,741 -643,601.5	-61,658,877 -116,254	-87,484,560 -5,025,862	-71,153,348 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-12.27% -0.62	-30.44% -0.29	-36.98% 0.18	-58.97% -5.07	-39.50% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for CENTRAL VERMONT 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	21,483,914 5,089,215	52,562,035 4,572,541	59,623,534 5,268,134	91,325,690 13,092,619	76,158,542 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	258,098	292,284	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	865,431	848,680	875,366	774,224	584,934
⊳ 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	7,676,311	8,806,035	7,933,421	10,116,962	11,990,715
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	37,609	51,994	34,110	1,674	4,496
⊳ 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	12,646,465	42,563,042	50,780,637	80,432,830	63,578,397
Total income ? Median	-338,078 6,586,430	2,423,294 6,767,106	-2,035,343 8,419,950	3,841,130 8,094,175	5,005,194 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	-338,078 6,043,842	2,423,294 5,845,112	-2,035,343 7,606,259	3,841,130 7,283,041	5,005,194 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-0.16966% 4.62%	1.11530% 4.42%	-0.89908% 5.16%	1.60255% 5.2%	1.95298% 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 CENTRAL VERMONT 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	28,021,757 23,241,334	28,333,288 23,709,545	29,920,432 24,248,380	27,525,951 22,858,541	27,458,077 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	26,539,294 21,577,146	28,333,288 22,041,594	29,920,432 22,722,063	27,525,951 21,570,441	27,458,077 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	1,482,463 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	23,448,844 11,160,864	27,879,038 11,987,345	28,773,026 12,926,866	27,039,368 11,884,480	29,037,270 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	23,448,844 10,918,923	27,879,038 11,706,976	28,773,026 12,615,917	27,039,368 11,458,116	29,037,270 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	315,480 594,888	537,471 595,761	436,702 577,894	520,315 542,168	457,226 549,667
Outlier Median	934,040 582,572	376,286 538,116	102,106 212,434	136,452 126,559	139,119 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	11,421,440 3,662,910	8,882,747 3,730,911	13,851,268 4,081,319	16,772,057 4,643,908	17,981,180 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,449,096 2,654,636	2,021,388 2,940,659	1,641,264 3,380,215	1,026,547 3,488,738	918,786 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	3,938,717 5,147,790	4,189,602 5,337,617	4,208,022 5,711,082	3,729,887 5,923,418	2,853,212 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	1.97% 3.24	1.95% 3.12	1.84% 3.21	1.58% 3.3	1.14% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	15,360,157 9,489,989	13,072,349 9,424,297	18,059,290 10,120,158	20,501,944 11,171,337	20,834,392 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	102,707,372 52,142,039	104,978,324 54,485,252	106,698,657 57,395,589	113,310,769 58,830,919	116,835,975 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	51.61 36.68	48.99 36.56	46.89 36.37	48.27 35.93	46.71 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	1,195,306 1,449,244	97,546 1,475,986	1,089,351 1,563,078	606,189 1,721,954	133,233 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	16,891.00 22,725	1,467.00 23,018.5	14,690.00 24,503.48	8,737.00 25,026.5	1,039.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	70.77 64.67	66.49 64.53	74.16 65.06	69.38 68.97	128.23 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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