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Short-term acute care hospital · Lake Charles, Louisiana · 10 beds · CMS certification number 190315

Avail Hospital Lake Charles

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended December 31, 2022, settled, stamped by CMS October 16, 2024. Three years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2022 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$11.1M
$11,141,416 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$16.2M
$16,212,168 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$5.1M
−$5,070,752 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−45.5%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $8.1M in its first year on file (2020) to $11.1M in 2022.
  • Its result from patient care: −$7.8M (2020), −$6.2M (2021), −$5.1M (2022).
  • 1 of the 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also reports a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2022.

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

Three years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
2020
settled
$8.1M
$16.0M
2021
settled
$10.1M
$16.3M
2022
settled
$11.1M
$16.2M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Louisiana with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2022.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Avail Hospital Lake Charles10$11,141,416$16,212,168−45.5%
Sterling Surgical Hospital, Slidell10$20,748,094$16,389,17221.0%
Monroe Surgical Hospital, Monroe10$25,825,587$28,888,269−11.9%
Park Place Surgery Center, Lafayette10$51,646,853$43,715,80915.4%
Specialists Hospital Shreveport, Shreveport15$79,081,204$62,198,45621.3%
Surgical Specialty Center of Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge16$49,815,816$41,414,88016.9%

Patients and payers

Discharges
130
S-3 line 14, col 15
Inpatient days
687
S-3 line 14, col 8
Beds in use, on an average day
1.9
days ÷ days in year
Occupancy
18.8%
days ÷ bed days
Medicare share of days
29.5%
S-3 cols 6 ÷ 8

Who owns it

Related organizations on its own cost report: DR PATEL (100%), management; DR PATEL (100%), billing.

Type of control on its cost report: proprietary, corporation.

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSP10FY2022.ZIP, form CMS-2552-10, filed under CMS certification number 190315. Patients and payers: worksheet S-3 Part I of the same filing.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSP10FY2022.ZIP, read October 16, 2024.