GUNDERSEN PALMER LUTHERAN HOSPITAL AND CLINICS — financial and operating metrics

CCN 161316, WEST UNION, IA · Medicare cost reports, FY2020–FY2025

Short reporting period. FY2023 (272 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.

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MetricFY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023
272d
FY2024FY2025
Total facility beds availableunverified252525252525
Total bed days availableunverified9,1509,1259,1256,8259,1509,125
Total facility dischargesunverified195228248156208215
Total facility inpatient daysunverified1,7401,8571,9341,3682,8192,203
Total patient revenue (gross charges)unverified$44,523,354$55,760,772$58,117,721$47,905,433$70,652,745$71,999,271
Contractual allowances and discountsunverified$16,824,655$20,685,306$23,683,416$20,005,166$24,030,115$27,541,056
Net patient revenueunverified$27,698,699$35,075,466$34,434,305$27,900,267$46,622,630$44,458,215
Total operating expensesunverified$30,117,897$34,114,581$36,828,184$30,649,917$43,670,339$44,770,761
Net income from service to patientsunverified$-2,419,198$960,885$-2,393,879$-2,749,650$2,952,291$-312,546
Net incomeunverified$1,887,557$9,388,489$1,907,842$322,337$6,717,105$3,927,256
Cost of uncompensated careunverified$1,061,293$1,063,091$1,049,838$1,031,230$2,071,615$2,416,326
Total facility bad debt expenseunverified$318,120$596,625$319,279$347,416$680,425$494,296
Charity care charges and uninsured discountsunverified$885,585$773,584$948,350$863,976$1,852,372$2,469,496
Cost of charity careunverified$792,400$629,680$802,680$750,762$1,552,939$2,046,531
Operating marginunverified-8.7%2.7%-7.0%-9.9%6.3%-0.7%
Overall cost-to-charge ratiounverified67.6%61.2%63.4%64.0%61.8%62.2%
Occupancy rateunverified19.0%20.4%21.2%20.0%30.8%24.1%
Average length of stayunverified8.98.17.88.813.610.2
Uncompensated care as % of operating expenseunverified3.5%3.1%2.9%3.4%4.7%5.4%
Charity care cost-to-charge ratiounverified89.5%81.4%84.6%86.9%83.8%82.9%
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