Velarion Records

Short-term acute care hospital · Chester, Montana · 11 beds · CMS certification number 270027

Liberty County Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended March 31, 2003, settled with audit, stamped by CMS April 21, 2004. Seven years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2003 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$3.4M
$3,427,732 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$4.1M
$4,104,905 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$677K
−$677,173 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−19.8%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue rose from $2.8M in its first year on file (1997) to $3.4M in 2003.
  • Its result from patient care: −$620K (2001), −$862K (2002), −$677K (2003).
  • 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 2003.

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

Seven years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1997
settled
$2.8M
$3.0M
1998
reopened
$3.5M
$3.2M
1999
settled with audit
$3.5M
$3.7M
2000
settled
$3.2M
$3.7M
2001
settled with audit
$4.3M
$4.9M
2002
settled
$4.4M
$5.3M
2003
settled with audit
$3.4M
$4.1M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in Montana with under 25 beds, each on fiscal year 2003.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Liberty County Hospital11$3,427,732$4,104,905−19.8%
Big Horn County Memorial Hospital, Hardin16$5,694,955$4,956,47213.0%
Broadwater Health Center, Townsend9$1,632,627$2,151,493−31.8%
Northeast Montana Healthcare Hospita, Wolf Point20$10,168,890$10,674,540−5.0%
Northern Rockies, Cut Bank20$6,975,223$8,170,799−17.1%
Roundup Memorial Hospital, Roundup11$3,895,358$4,750,745−22.0%

Follow this hospital, free

We send this record now and tell you when it files again.

More short-term acute care hospitals in Montana

From the publisher of Velarion Records

Velarion Intel

Independent Decision-Grade Intelligence

Compensation and corporate governance intelligence for advisors, investors and companies. Executive and board pay for public companies, benchmarked against peers.

See what Intel shows

Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSPFY2002.ZIP, form CMS-2552-96, filed under CMS certification number 270027.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSPFY2002.ZIP, read April 21, 2004.