As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

UNITED HOSPITAL CENTER

CMS id: 510006
327 MEDICAL PARK DRIVE, BRIDGEPORT WV 26330. County: HARRISON
System: WVUHS
CBSA: Clarksburg, WV

The 264-bed, acute-care hospital had $57,458,832 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 30.62194% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 2.82% of its operating expenses on uncompensated care and reported $10,034,723 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	212 118	212 118	212 119.5	212 118	212 119
Total beds Median	264 162	264 162	264 162	264 162	264 163.5
FTEs Median	1,763.67 788.06	1,769.87 793.42	1,798.40 806.03	1,939.20 787.61	1,754.34 804.34

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	331,585,554 150,932,746	368,217,722 158,950,878	413,105,866 168,696,998	444,375,830 163,454,693	489,779,924 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	323,238,373 149,311,209	339,693,000 156,110,414	375,447,702 164,890,568	421,780,469 166,516,854	432,321,092 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	8,347,181 -964,173	28,524,722 -643,601.5	37,658,164 -116,254	22,595,361 -5,025,862	57,458,832 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	2.52% -0.62	7.75% -0.29	9.12% 0.18	5.08% -5.07	11.73% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for UNITED HOSPITAL 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	36,914,015 5,089,215	13,176,888 4,572,541	49,662,836 5,268,134	89,677,639 13,092,619	133,358,168 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	302,185 224,999	84,481 199,009	59,488 206,870.5	217,524 194,343	2,775 249,496
⊳ 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	19,341	5,375	18,868	14,610	10,601
⊳ 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	1,802,926	1,906,557	1,958,420	1,434,648	1,472,164
⊳ 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	5,629,823	5,583,704	6,162,929	7,053,672	6,600,335
⊳ Line 18: Revenue from sale of medical records and abstracts	0	0	0	0	0
⊳ Line 19: Tuition (fees, sale of textbooks, uniforms, etc.)	78,500	86,500	87,750	88,500	84,750
⊳ 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	3,185,976
⊳ 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	29,081,240	5,510,271	41,375,381	80,868,685	122,001,567
Total income ? Median	45,261,196 6,586,430	41,701,610 6,767,106	87,321,000 8,419,950	112,273,000 8,094,175	190,817,000 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	73,196 146,289.5	7,396,610 164,857	0 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	45,188,000 6,043,842	34,305,000 5,845,112	87,321,000 7,606,259	112,273,000 7,283,041	190,817,000 14,957,241
Net margin Median	12.26270% 4.62%	8.99462% 4.42%	18.86925% 5.16%	21.02280% 5.2%	30.62194% 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 UNITED HOSPITAL 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	47,256,742 23,241,334	50,227,775 23,709,545	55,191,412 24,248,380	53,921,772 22,858,541	49,876,210 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	45,339,247 21,577,146	48,455,202 22,041,594	52,885,762 22,722,063	50,899,681 21,570,441	47,722,905 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	1,917,495 1,203,033	1,772,573 1,215,295	2,305,650 1,313,657	3,022,091 1,365,298	2,153,305 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	40,438,732 11,160,864	43,054,612 11,987,345	52,865,231 12,926,866	60,283,084 11,884,480	53,503,161 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	37,406,178 10,918,923	39,980,141 11,706,976	48,599,980 12,615,917	52,059,606 11,458,116	53,503,161 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	3,032,554 1,282,808	3,074,471 1,407,728	4,265,251 1,341,512	8,223,478 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	2,866,473 3,284,314	3,216,148 3,250,551	3,663,045 3,386,837	3,605,352 3,360,806	3,506,975 3,508,953
Disproportionate-share hospital (DSH) Median	1,941,714 594,888	1,957,527 595,761	1,747,617 577,894	1,742,983 542,168	1,553,309 549,667
Outlier Median	1,201,635 582,572	755,260 538,116	533,064 212,434	544,425 126,559	252,112 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	20,747,226 3,662,910	17,309,306 3,730,911	21,255,801 4,081,319	23,686,399 4,643,908	10,034,723 4,389,147
Charity care Median	2,018,328 2,654,636	3,375,365 2,940,659	3,045,823 3,380,215	12,885,539 3,488,738	9,039,302 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	6,884,127 5,147,790	4,355,439 5,337,617	8,656,586 5,711,082	17,454,576 5,923,418	12,205,694 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.13% 3.24	1.28% 3.12	2.31% 3.21	4.14% 3.3	2.82% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	27,631,353 9,489,989	21,664,745 9,424,297	29,912,387 10,120,158	41,140,975 11,171,337	22,240,417 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	123,657,537 52,142,039	127,619,687 54,485,252	136,714,603 57,395,589	156,685,794 58,830,919	149,768,598 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	38.26 36.68	37.57 36.56	36.41 36.37	37.15 35.93	34.64 35.24
Intern, resident salaries* Median	1,186,092 2,598,592	1,331,732 2,686,824	1,389,817 2,753,773	1,394,400 2,937,156	0 2,909,848
Contract intern, resident salaries* Median	315,233 1,251,927	321,438 1,186,494	328,344 1,204,885	332,938 1,279,653	350,370 1,469,317
Contract adjusted salaries, direct-care Median	895,187 1,449,244	588,757 1,475,986	976,518 1,563,078	1,684,998 1,721,954	3,218,810 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	14,497.00 22,725	8,392.00 23,018.5	13,286.00 24,503.48	26,881.00 25,026.5	34,398.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	61.75 64.67	70.16 64.53	73.50 65.06	62.68 68.97	93.58 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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