Cost report · CMS certification number 210068
BALTIMORE CONVENTION CENTER -ACS
BALTIMORE, Maryland · short-term acute care hospital
1. Finances, as filed
From this hospital’s Medicare cost report for the year ended 23 March 2023 — a reporting period of 265 days, not a full year.
| Figure | As filed | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| Total operating expenses | $3,625,544 | CMS-2552-10 worksheet G300000 line 400 column 100 |
| Income from service to patients | −$3,625,544 | CMS-2552-10 worksheet G300000 line 500 column 100 |
| Total facility beds | 250 | CMS-2552-10 worksheet S300001 line 1400 column 200 |
| Cost-to-charge ratio | 1.3264 | CMS-2552-10 worksheet S100000 line 100 column 100 |
Cost report filed under CMS certification number 210068 for 1 July 2022 to 23 March 2023, settled. The public file it was read from.
2. Five hospitals in Maryland of a similar size
Chosen for having bed counts close to this hospital’s, and listed by name. Not the state’s largest hospitals: a comparison only means something between hospitals of roughly the same size. Each figure is that hospital’s own filing; the reporting periods differ and each is shown.
| Hospital | Beds | Net patient revenue | Total operating expenses | Charity care, at cost | Uncompensated care, at cost | Period ended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BALTIMORE CONVENTION CENTER -ACS | 250 | $3,625,544 | 23 March 2023 | |||
| CROWNSVILLE HOSPITAL CENTER | 264 | $2,387,201 | $30,723,433 | 30 June 2004 | ||
| GREATER BALTIMORE MEDICAL CENTER | 241 | $447,576,320 | $688,810,649 | 30 June 2025 | ||
| HOWARD COUNTY | 245 | $339,623,789 | $349,774,663 | $8,043,919 | $14,846,227 | 30 June 2025 |
| SOUTHERN MARYLAND HOSPITAL | 239 | $216,507,269 | $238,035,495 | 10 December 2012 | ||
| SUBURBAN HOSPITAL | 253 | $390,310,578 | $417,802,214 | $7,376,603 | $13,257,470 | 30 June 2025 |
3. Where this hospital sits
A position, not a score: the hospitals are counted, not ranked. Each line names the hospitals the position was taken over.
- 5thpercentile of 21 hospitals in MD, same facility class, 200 to 399 bedsTotal operating expenses
Total operating expenses across every hospital filing for 2023, with this one marked.
Middle half between $24,827,928 and $234,418,978, midpoint $64,852,981, across 5,959 hospitals.
- 52ndpercentile of 21 hospitals in MD, same facility class, 200 to 399 bedsTotal facility beds
Total facility beds across every hospital filing for 2023, with this one marked.
Middle half between 25 and 169, midpoint 63, across 5,938 hospitals.
- 100thpercentile of 20 hospitals in MD, same facility class, 200 to 399 bedsCost-to-charge ratio
Cost-to-charge ratio across every hospital filing for 2023, with this one marked.
Middle half between 0.1930 and 0.4724, midpoint 0.2823, across 4,577 hospitals.
4. Executive compensation and community benefit
Not in this report. Executive pay is filed on IRS Form 990 Part VII and community benefit on its Schedule H, under an employer identification number. The Medicare cost report does not carry that number, so nothing on the two documents names the same organization.
Every cost report on file
One row per filing, oldest first until you say otherwise. Every column orders both ways. Reporting periods differ between filings and the length of each is shown, because revenue over three months set beside revenue over twelve is a wrong number that looks right.
| Fiscal year ↑↓ | Period ended ↑↓ | Days ↑↓ | Form ↑↓ | Status ↑↓ | Beds ↑↓ | Net patient revenue ↑↓ | Total operating expenses ↑↓ | Income from service to patients ↑↓ | Charity care, at cost ↑↓ | Uncompensated care, at cost ↑↓ | Bad debt expense ↑↓ | Cost-to-charge ratio ↑↓ | Stamped by CMS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2023-03-23 | 265 | CMS-2552-10 | settled | 250 | $3,625,544 | −$3,625,544 | 1.3264 | 2024-11-18 | ||||
| 2022 | 2022-06-30 | 364 | CMS-2552-10 | settled | 250 | $3,052,168 | −$3,052,168 | 2.3505 | 2023-10-25 | ||||
| 2021 | 2021-06-30 | 369 | CMS-2552-10 | settled | 250 | $23,624,639 | −$23,624,639 | 1.0000 | 2022-11-10 |
How to read this report
Every figure above is printed as its source document printed it, with the exact place it came from beside it: the worksheet, line and column of the Medicare cost report this hospital filed under CMS certification number 210068. A reader holding the same public file can go to that cell.
Two forms are in use. CMS-2552-96 covers reports for 1996 through 2011 and CMS-2552-10 the ones since. The older form has no worksheet S-10, so on those years charity care, bad debt, uncompensated care and the cost-to-charge ratio have no cell to come from and no figure appears.
A figure the hospital’s filing does not carry is left out. Nothing here is estimated and nothing is carried in from another year. No percentage or ratio is calculated anywhere in this report: charity care and revenue sit in adjacent rows and the reader draws the relation.
Financial figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, publication year 2022, file HOSP10FY2022.ZIP. Corrections: hello@velarionrecords.com. Velarion Records takes no position on any hospital, its finances or the programs it takes part in.
The full report for BALTIMORE CONVENTION CENTER -ACS
Every figure on this page as a document you can keep, file or send on: the finances as filed with the worksheet, line and column each one came from, five hospitals of a similar size in the same state, the contract-pharmacy network year by year, and what changed on the record.