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Short-term acute care hospital · Wrangell, Alaska · 8 beds · CMS certification number 020007

Wrangell General Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended June 30, 2002, settled, stamped by CMS September 29, 2004. Six years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2002 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$6.0M
$5,979,083 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$6.8M
$6,753,801 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$775K
−$774,718 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−13.0%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $3.8M in its first year on file (1997) to $6.0M in 2002.
  • Its result from patient care: $14K (2000), $3.1M (2001), −$775K (2002).
  • 4 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2002.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

Six years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled
$3.8M
$4.6M
1998
reopened
$4.0M
$4.8M
1999
settled
$4.7M
$4.9M
2000
reopened
$5.6M
$5.6M
2001
settled
$9.1M
$6.0M
2002
settled
$6.0M
$6.8M

Beside its peers

Hospitals of the same type (short-term acute care hospital), nearest in size, from Alaska first; each on fiscal year 2002.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Wrangell General Hospital8$5,979,083$6,753,801−13.0%
Cordova Community Medical Center, Cordova17$4,570,556$5,277,839−15.5%
Ketchikan General Hospital, Ketchikan37$32,726,650$32,775,859−0.1%
Norton Sound Regional Hospital, Nome19$28,194,057$47,878,224−69.8%
Prov. Kodiak Island Med CTR, Kodiak25$17,069,028$17,088,178−0.1%
South Peninsula Hospital, Homer24$21,202,856$21,124,0190.4%

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSPFY2001.ZIP, form CMS-2552-96, filed under CMS certification number 020007.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSPFY2001.ZIP, read September 29, 2004.