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Cost report · CMS certification number 340031

SWAIN COUNTY HOSPITAL INC.

BRYSON CITY, North Carolina · short-term acute care hospital

1. Finances, as filed

From this hospital’s Medicare cost report for the year ended 30 September 1999.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total patient revenue$6,582,425CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 100 column 100
Contractual allowances$2,282,277CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 200 column 100
Net patient revenue$4,300,148CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 300 column 100
Total operating expenses$5,757,401CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 400 column 100
Income from service to patients−$1,457,253CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 500 column 100
Total facility beds48CMS-2552-96 worksheet S300001 line 1200 column 100

Cost report filed under CMS certification number 340031 for 1 October 1998 to 30 September 1999, settled. The public file it was read from.

2. Five hospitals in North Carolina 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.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueTotal operating expensesCharity care, at costUncompensated care, at costPeriod ended
ALLEGHANY COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL46$3,423,970$3,899,98331 January 2005
ANGEL MEDICAL CENTER47$13,465,877$15,586,13226 February 2009
BLADEN COUNTY HOSPITAL48$14,596,270$18,214,41030 September 2003
BLUE RIDGE REGIONAL HOSPITAL49$35,489,345$39,903,695$1,511,093$3,399,72730 September 2014
PUNGO DISTRICT HOSPITAL CORPORATION49$3,381,259$3,371,40726 February 2002
SWAIN COUNTY HOSPITAL INC.48$4,300,148$5,757,40130 September 1999

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.

  • 38thpercentile of 32 hospitals in NC, same facility class, 25 to 49 bedsNet patient revenue

Net patient revenue across every hospital filing for 1999, with this one marked.

This hospital$4,037,642$153,653,737

Middle half between $8,318,589 and $71,168,257, midpoint $23,417,708, across 5,800 hospitals.

  • 39thpercentile of 33 hospitals in NC, same facility class, 25 to 49 bedsTotal operating expenses

Total operating expenses across every hospital filing for 1999, with this one marked.

This hospital$4,818,690$156,849,767

Middle half between $9,449,172 and $70,845,647, midpoint $25,021,185, across 5,903 hospitals.

  • 91stpercentile of 33 hospitals in NC, same facility class, 25 to 49 bedsTotal facility beds

Total facility beds across every hospital filing for 1999, with this one marked.

This hospital25319

Middle half between 43 and 186, midpoint 90, across 5,959 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.

4 hospitals, ordered by Fiscal year
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
19961996-12-31365CMS-2552-96reopened48$6,012,131$6,572,167−$560,0362000-06-30
19971997-09-30272CMS-2552-96settled48$4,781,038$5,252,609−$471,5711999-10-13
19981998-09-30364CMS-2552-96settled48$4,204,137$6,420,205−$2,216,0682000-10-31
19991999-09-30364CMS-2552-96settled48$4,300,148$5,757,401−$1,457,2532002-09-19

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 340031. 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 1999, file HOSPFY1999.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 SWAIN COUNTY HOSPITAL INC.

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.

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