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Cost report · CMS certification number 430066

AVERA WESKOTA MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTE

WESSINGTON SPRINGS, South Dakota · short-term acute care hospital

1. Finances, as filed

From this hospital’s Medicare cost report for the year ended 30 September 2001.

FigureAs filedWhere it comes from
Total patient revenue$1,849,457CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 100 column 100
Contractual allowances$479,231CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 200 column 100
Net patient revenue$1,370,226CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 300 column 100
Total operating expenses$1,841,339CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 400 column 100
Income from service to patients−$471,113CMS-2552-96 worksheet G300000 line 500 column 100
Total facility beds24CMS-2552-96 worksheet S300001 line 1200 column 100

Cost report filed under CMS certification number 430066 for 1 October 2000 to 30 September 2001, reopened. The public file it was read from.

2. Five hospitals in South Dakota 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
AVERA DELLS AREA HOSPITAL23$14,502,855$13,668,064$55,846$81,34630 June 2025
AVERA ST. BENEDICT HEALTH CENTER25$8,320,928$10,525,35230 June 2003
AVERA WESKOTA MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTE24$1,370,226$1,841,33930 September 2001
MADISON REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM22$34,845,432$37,067,378$136,534$1,189,81030 June 2025
SSH - SIOUX FALLS INC24$13,298,956$12,673,42128 February 2025
ST. MICHAEL S HOSPITAL INC.25$2,143,074$2,166,56928 February 2002

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.

  • 22ndpercentile of 18 hospitals in SD, same facility class, under 25 bedsNet patient revenue

Net patient revenue across every hospital filing for 2001, with this one marked.

This hospital$4,036,537$183,039,202

Middle half between $8,940,421 and $81,306,376, midpoint $25,900,646, across 5,809 hospitals.

  • 16thpercentile of 19 hospitals in SD, same facility class, under 25 bedsTotal operating expenses

Total operating expenses across every hospital filing for 2001, with this one marked.

This hospital$4,906,986$181,658,014

Middle half between $10,082,560 and $80,519,935, midpoint $27,984,149, across 5,912 hospitals.

  • 100thpercentile of 19 hospitals in SD, same facility class, under 25 bedsTotal facility beds

Total facility beds across every hospital filing for 2001, with this one marked.

This hospital21309

Middle half between 37 and 175, midpoint 81, across 5,942 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.

5 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
19971997-06-30364CMS-2552-96settled29$1,660,543$1,487,428$173,1151999-07-26
19981998-06-30364CMS-2552-96settled29$1,482,931$1,501,407−$18,4762000-06-30
19991999-06-30364CMS-2552-96settled29$1,453,127$1,524,100−$70,9732001-06-07
20002000-05-31335CMS-2552-96settled29$1,420,480$1,482,452−$61,9722002-03-22
20012001-09-30364CMS-2552-96reopened24$1,370,226$1,841,339−$471,1132006-08-17

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 430066. 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 2001, file HOSPFY2001.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 AVERA WESKOTA MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTE

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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