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Short-term acute care hospital · Bryson City, North Carolina · 48 beds · CMS certification number 340031

Swain County Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended September 30, 1999, settled, stamped by CMS September 19, 2002. Four years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 1999 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$4.3M
$4,300,148 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$5.8M
$5,757,401 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$1.5M
−$1,457,253 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−33.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $6.0M in its first year on file (1996) to $4.3M in 1999.
  • Its result from patient care: −$472K (1997), −$2.2M (1998), −$1.5M (1999).
  • 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 1999.

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

Four years of filings

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

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
reopened
$6.0M
$6.6M
1997
settled
$4.8M
$5.3M
1998
settled
$4.2M
$6.4M
1999
settled
$4.3M
$5.8M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in North Carolina with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 1999.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Swain County Hospital48$4,300,148$5,757,401−33.9%
Bladen County Hospital, Elizabethtown48$17,434,021$18,715,002−7.3%
Blue Ridge Hospital System, Spruce Pine49$15,652,440$15,054,0443.8%
Crawley Memorial Hospital, Boiling Springs49$1,612,752$2,213,916−37.3%
Hoots Memorial Hospital, Yadkinville46$4,234,832$6,871,991−62.3%
Pungo District Hospital, Belhaven49$8,541,356$9,709,015−13.7%

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSPFY1999.ZIP, form CMS-2552-96, filed under CMS certification number 340031.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSPFY1999.ZIP, read September 19, 2002.