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CCN 190316, BATON ROUGE, LA · Medicare cost reports, FY2020–FY2025

Short reporting period. FY2020 (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.

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MetricFY2020
181d
FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Total facility beds availableunverified139137107169169169
Total bed days availableunverified24,02950,00539,05561,68561,85461,685
Total facility dischargesunverified1,1912,9632,1761,9821,9051,738
Total facility inpatient daysunverified8,24716,74912,90112,49611,61311,170
Total patient revenue (gross charges)unverified$26,826,163$82,158,756$76,350,953$89,888,806$96,085,797$103,807,990
Contractual allowances and discountsunverified$14,668,423$47,913,493$42,762,913$44,319,631$55,891,501$57,150,104
Net patient revenueunverified$12,157,740$34,245,263$33,588,040$45,569,175$40,194,296$46,657,886
Total operating expensesunverified$13,191,795$34,994,856$34,500,774$38,669,475$40,785,469$38,013,010
Net income from service to patientsunverified$-1,034,055$-749,593$-912,734$6,899,700$-591,173$8,644,876
Net incomeunverified$10,638,184$-187,263$-5,232,360$2,626,674$171,709$10,156,064
Cost of uncompensated careunverified$25,755$1,530,301$2,377,317$2,581,948$3,390,930$3,430,348
Total facility bad debt expenseunverified$57,309$2,725,118$3,247,031$3,500,194$3,676,143$4,109,653
Charity care charges and uninsured discountsunverified$4,377$752,229$1,574,989$2,208,479$3,821,961$5,964,009
Cost of charity careunverified$2,327$338,333$789,014$1,009,394$1,738,866$2,025,685
Operating marginunverified-8.5%-2.2%-2.7%15.1%-1.5%18.5%
Overall cost-to-charge ratiounverified49.2%42.6%45.2%43.0%42.4%36.6%
Occupancy rateunverified34.3%33.5%33.0%20.3%18.8%18.1%
Average length of stayunverified6.95.75.96.36.16.4
Uncompensated care as % of operating expenseunverified0.2%4.4%6.9%6.7%8.3%9.0%
Charity care cost-to-charge ratiounverified53.2%45.0%50.1%45.7%45.5%34.0%
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