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Short-term acute care hospital · Webster, South Dakota · 32 beds · CMS certification number 430038

Lake Area Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended April 30, 1999, settled, stamped by CMS March 19, 2001. Four years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 1999 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$2.2M
$2,244,622 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$2.5M
$2,490,211 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$246K
−$245,589 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−10.9%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $2.6M in its first year on file (1996) to $2.2M in 1999.
  • Its result from patient care: −$501K (1997), −$131K (1998), −$246K (1999).
  • All 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
$2.6M
$3.0M
1997
settled
$2.8M
$3.3M
1998
settled
$1.4M
$1.6M
1999
settled
$2.2M
$2.5M

Beside its peers

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

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Lake Area Hospital32$2,244,622$2,490,211−10.9%
Coteau Des Praries, Sisseton37$2,534,395$2,834,894−11.9%
Gregory Community Hospital, Gregory33$6,047,226$6,186,461−2.3%
Hand County Memorial Hospital, Miller30$2,566,752$2,711,969−5.7%
Redfield Community Memorial Hospital, Redfield37$4,184,394$4,822,596−15.3%
Sturgis Communtiy Health Care Center, Sturgis30$10,673,315$11,167,029−4.6%

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSPFY1998.ZIP, form CMS-2552-96, filed under CMS certification number 430038.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSPFY1998.ZIP, read March 19, 2001.