As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL

CMS id: 490063
3300 GALLOWS ROAD, FALLS CHURCH VA 22042. County: FAIRFAX
System: INOVA HEALTH SYSTEM
CBSA: Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

The 897-bed, acute-care hospital had $23,220,460 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 4.64225% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 4.41% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $94,371,316 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	588 118	565 118	597 119.5	588 118	558 119
Total beds Median	884 162	859 162	901 162	910 162	897 163.5
FTEs Median	8,375.13 788.06	8,704.86 793.42	9,079.85 806.03	10,120.83 787.61	9,823.10 804.34

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	1,445,394,077 150,932,746	1,524,068,812 158,950,878	1,721,598,676 168,696,998	1,806,946,573 163,454,693	2,155,046,859 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	1,387,540,979 149,311,209	1,457,144,009 156,110,414	1,684,473,021 164,890,568	1,832,355,411 166,516,854	2,131,826,399 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	57,853,098 -964,173	66,924,803 -643,601.5	37,125,655 -116,254	-25,408,838 -5,025,862	23,220,460 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	4.00% -0.62	4.39% -0.29	2.16% 0.18	-1.41% -5.07	1.08% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for INOVA FAIRFAX 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	38,360,105 5,089,215	48,101,003 4,572,541	48,464,471 5,268,134	132,085,699 13,092,619	80,562,112 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	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ 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	38,360,105	48,101,003	48,464,471	132,085,699	80,562,112
Total income ? Median	96,213,203 6,586,430	115,025,806 6,767,106	85,590,126 8,419,950	106,676,861 8,094,175	103,782,572 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	96,213,203 6,043,842	115,025,806 5,845,112	85,590,126 7,606,259	106,676,861 7,283,041	103,782,572 14,957,241
Net margin Median	6.48444% 4.62%	7.31637% 4.42%	4.83543% 5.16%	5.50155% 5.2%	4.64225% 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 INOVA FAIRFAX 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	215,468,679 23,241,334	228,235,398 23,709,545	235,576,903 24,248,380	231,609,143 22,858,541	264,047,554 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	212,641,270 21,577,146	225,822,641 22,041,594	232,757,610 22,722,063	223,874,469 21,570,441	252,546,155 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	2,827,409 1,845,420	2,412,757 1,757,392	2,819,293 1,738,842	3,436,712 1,510,463	4,306,799 1,393,140
⊳ Inpatient rehabilitation facility (IRF) ⊳ Median	0 3,535,627	0 3,746,588	0 3,782,288	4,297,962 3,865,578	7,194,600 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	85,174,209 11,160,864	88,298,975 11,987,345	93,683,580 12,926,866	91,846,230 11,884,480	112,274,616 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	85,174,209 10,918,923	88,298,975 11,706,976	93,683,580 12,615,917	91,846,230 11,458,116	112,274,616 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	19,015,934 3,284,314	19,707,563 3,250,551	19,918,339 3,386,837	19,479,836 3,360,806	21,239,376 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	5,375,315 594,888	5,503,049 595,761	6,360,038 577,894	5,951,027 542,168	5,673,494 549,667
Outlier Median	11,591,908 582,572	14,689,272 538,116	2,364,526 212,434	2,804,855 126,559	3,655,052 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	257,737 3,662,910	38,556,754 3,730,911	64,549,131 4,081,319	70,820,456 4,643,908	94,371,316 4,389,147
Charity care Median	59,416,273 2,654,636	64,832,610 2,940,659	76,147,201 3,380,215	82,028,447 3,488,738	83,378,166 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	84,088,615 5,147,790	89,062,904 5,337,617	86,323,029 5,711,082	82,246,338 5,923,418	94,114,412 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	6.06% 3.24	6.11% 3.12	5.12% 3.21	4.49% 3.3	4.41% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	84,346,352 9,489,989	127,619,658 9,424,297	150,872,160 10,120,158	153,066,794 11,171,337	188,485,728 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	411,927,626 52,142,039	438,468,490 54,485,252	493,117,386 57,395,589	531,513,790 58,830,919	668,868,697 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	29.69 36.68	30.09 36.56	29.27 36.37	29.01 35.93	31.86 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	2,436,930 1,251,927	2,325,660 1,186,494	2,529,849 1,204,885	0 1,279,653	2,340,484 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	13,836,290 1,449,244	14,676,422 1,475,986	18,940,587 1,563,078	21,047,381 1,721,954	59,921,121 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	206,564.17 22,725	217,978.00 23,018.5	267,569.90 24,503.48	265,123.62 25,026.5	450,658.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	66.98 64.67	67.33 64.53	70.79 65.06	79.39 68.97	132.96 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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