LAFAYETTE GENERAL SURGICAL HOSPITAL — financial and operating metrics

CCN 190268, LAFAYETTE, LA · Medicare cost reports, FY2017–FY2019

Short reporting period. FY2019 (150 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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MetricFY2017FY2018FY2019
150d
Total facility beds availableunverified101010
Total bed days availableunverified3,6503,6501,510
Total facility dischargesunverified17335659
Total facility inpatient daysunverified259719107
Total patient revenue (gross charges)unverified$72,305,100$82,432,904$27,731,306
Contractual allowances and discountsunverified$55,913,629$64,699,214$21,899,050
Net patient revenueunverified$16,391,471$17,733,690$5,832,256
Total operating expensesunverified$13,228,520$14,738,985$4,706,482
Net income from service to patientsunverified$3,162,951$2,994,705$1,125,774
Net incomeunverified$3,776,449$3,206,614$1,177,320
Cost of uncompensated careunverified$170,445$54,158$23,770
Total facility bad debt expenseunverified$685,376$164,590$110,149
Charity care charges and uninsured discountsunverified$30,518$15,488$640
Cost of charity careunverified$30,518$15,488$362
Operating marginunverified19.3%16.9%19.3%
Overall cost-to-charge ratiounverified18.3%17.9%17.0%
Occupancy rateunverified7.1%19.7%7.1%
Average length of stayunverified1.52.01.8
Uncompensated care as % of operating expenseunverified1.3%0.4%0.5%
Charity care cost-to-charge ratiounverified100.0%100.0%56.6%
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