As of the July, 2022, release via CMS

MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER INC.

CMS id: 520109
1050 DIVISION STREET, MAUSTON WI 53948. County: JUNEAU
System: --
CBSA: Rural Wisconsin

The 172-bed, acute-care hospital had $-13,198,833 in net service to patients*, with a total profit margin of 8.02662% in fiscal year 2021, the latest year available.
It spent 1.85% 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	365
Ownership	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp	nfp
Acute beds Median	40 118	40 118	40 119.5	40 118	40 119
Total beds Median	172 162	172 162	172 162	172 162	172 163.5
FTEs Median	620.25 788.06	614.68 793.42	605.14 806.03	605.14 787.61	642.45 804.34

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	75,019,816 150,932,746	73,581,823 158,950,878	75,794,074 168,696,998	75,378,041 163,454,693	88,592,386 186,589,412
Operating expenses Median	83,616,233 149,311,209	84,935,100 156,110,414	86,573,661 164,890,568	91,798,741 166,516,854	101,791,219 180,120,888
Net income from service 2 patients (NS2P) ? Median	-8,596,417 -964,173	-11,353,277 -643,601.5	-10,779,587 -116,254	-16,420,700 -5,025,862	-13,198,833 -1,284,564
NS2P margin ? Median	-11.46% -0.62	-15.43% -0.29	-14.22% 0.18	-21.78% -5.07	-14.90% -0.88

Range* of Net Service to Patient (NS2P) margins

= NS2P margin for MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER INC. 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	7,725,812 5,089,215	9,859,311 4,572,541	13,007,171 5,268,134	20,570,191 13,092,619	22,082,266 12,369,236
⊳ Line 6: Contributions ? ⊳ Median	91,952 224,999	91,292 199,009	122,070 206,870.5	156,714 194,343	124,026 249,496
⊳ Line 7: Investments ? ⊳ Median	154,458 299,524	242,637 188,688.5	296,650 370,813	320,714 309,361.5	264,498 375,329
⊳ 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	7,479,402	9,525,382	12,588,451	20,092,763	21,693,742
Total income ? Median	-870,605 6,586,430	-1,493,966 6,767,106	2,227,584 8,419,950	4,149,491 8,094,175	8,883,433 15,162,888
Non-operating expenses Median	0 146,289.5	0 164,857	453 89,880.5	0 106,761	0 31,473.5
Net income Median	-870,605 6,043,842	-1,493,966 5,845,112	2,227,131 7,606,259	4,149,491 7,283,041	8,883,433 14,957,241
Net margin Median	-1.05215% 4.62%	-1.79044% 4.42%	2.50800% 5.16%	4.32472% 5.2%	8.02662% 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 MILE BLUFF MEDICAL CENTER INC. 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	6,117,154 23,241,334	5,004,865 23,709,545	4,998,321 24,248,380	4,910,706 22,858,541	5,284,576 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	5,266,282 21,577,146	4,124,234 22,041,594	4,299,931 22,722,063	3,992,253 21,570,441	4,546,477 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	850,872 1,203,033	880,631 1,215,295	698,390 1,313,657	918,453 1,365,298	738,099 1,179,746
All outpatient revenue Median Click here to show/hide details	9,172,419 11,160,864	8,951,141 11,987,345	9,349,157 12,926,866	9,134,540 11,884,480	9,170,900 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	5,190,148 10,918,923	5,206,723 11,706,976	5,525,317 12,615,917	5,394,411 11,458,116	5,666,903 12,776,716
⊳ Home Health agencies (HHA) ⊳ Median	102,549 1,282,808	34,936 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	3,879,722 618,038	3,709,482 697,279	3,823,840 690,232	3,740,129 684,010	3,503,997 670,558
⊳ 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	95,157 594,888	83,335 595,761	79,743 577,894	65,410 542,168	57,195 549,667
Outlier Median	34,844 582,572	26,248 538,116	15,777 212,434	6,867 126,559	18,214 139,139

Uncompensated care

Item	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Medicaid shortfall Median	3,240,205 3,662,910	4,164,543 3,730,911	3,568,031 4,081,319	2,974,022 4,643,908	0 4,389,147
Charity care Median	1,322,752 2,654,636	802,176 2,940,659	614,447 3,380,215	827,848 3,488,738	858,708 3,233,405
Uncompensated care (UCC) Median	2,374,297 5,147,790	1,885,836 5,337,617	1,900,469 5,711,082	2,088,139 5,923,418	1,881,452 5,508,107
UCC as a % of operating expenses Median	2.84% 3.24	2.22% 3.12	2.20% 3.21	2.27% 3.3	1.85% 2.86
Total shortfall/UCC Median	5,614,502 9,489,989	6,050,379 9,424,297	5,468,500 10,120,158	5,062,161 11,171,337	1,881,452 10,133,851

Labor costs

	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Total salaries Median	40,081,863 52,142,039	41,621,251 54,485,252	41,990,539 57,395,589	46,158,374 58,830,919	47,385,562 61,722,907
Salaries as a % of operating expenses Median	47.97 36.68	49.04 36.56	48.54 36.37	50.31 35.93	46.57 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	570,681 1,449,244	408,670 1,475,986	600,295 1,563,078	229,958 1,721,954	726,013 2,991,828
Contract hours, direct-care Median	8,237.00 22,725	5,939.00 23,018.5	8,526.00 24,503.48	3,700.00 25,026.5	7,823.00 33,786
Contract wages, direct-care Median	69.28 64.67	68.81 64.53	70.41 65.06	62.15 68.97	92.80 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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