HOWARD UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CORP — financial and operating metrics

CCN 090003, WASHINGTON, DC · Medicare cost reports, FY2020–FY2025

Short reporting period. FY2024 (181 days) covers less than a full year, usually because the hospital changed its fiscal year end, opened, closed or changed hands. Its totals are not comparable with the full years beside them, and no figure here has been scaled up to disguise that.

Unverified figures. Metrics marked unverified are derived from cost-report coordinates that have not yet been reconciled against audited financial statements. We show you which, rather than hiding it.

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MetricFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024
181d
FY2025
Total facility beds availableunverified221221228215178192
Total bed days availableunverified80,88680,66583,22078,54132,39670,080
Total facility dischargesunverified7,5527,3207,4127,0683,3926,337
Total facility inpatient daysunverified52,51444,70745,65547,87321,65841,202
Total patient revenue (gross charges)unverified$773,351,595$750,679,450$768,346,891$810,046,823$355,343,519$687,601,657
Contractual allowances and discountsunverified$506,288,069$470,239,265$475,939,010$515,452,075$227,667,461$413,798,730
Net patient revenueunverified$267,063,526$280,440,185$292,407,881$294,594,748$127,676,058$273,802,927
Total operating expensesunverified$300,079,175$326,191,974$339,071,738$319,459,453$161,474,901$319,248,101
Net income from service to patientsunverified$-33,015,649$-45,751,789$-46,663,857$-24,864,705$-33,798,843$-45,445,174
Net incomeunverified$9,785,742$46,956,910$24,011,778$16,283,805$-15,985,101$-10,778,735
Cost of uncompensated careunverified$7,091,831$11,462,307$4,533,845$16,416,014$9,488,119$20,879,858
Total facility bad debt expenseunverified$23,977,294$24,293,546$10,568,780$42,485,287$21,076,966$45,875,868
Charity care charges and uninsured discountsunverified$7,705,935$1,957,746$10,510,454$3,528,457$8,039,781
Cost of charity careunverified$2,889,856$711,716$3,254,072$2,086,817$5,053,860
Operating marginunverified-12.4%-16.3%-16.0%-8.4%-26.5%-16.6%
Overall cost-to-charge ratiounverified38.8%43.5%44.1%39.4%45.4%46.4%
Occupancy rateunverified64.9%55.4%54.9%61.0%66.9%58.8%
Average length of stayunverified7.06.16.26.86.46.5
Uncompensated care as % of operating expenseunverified2.4%3.5%1.3%5.1%5.9%6.5%
Charity care cost-to-charge ratiounverified37.5%36.4%31.0%59.1%62.9%
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