GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER — financial and operating metrics

CCN 520087, LA CROSSE, WI · 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 availableunverified275277260260263266
Total bed days availableunverified100,650101,10594,90070,98096,25897,090
Total facility dischargesunverified13,75615,44114,98211,46816,09217,982
Total facility inpatient daysunverified67,11367,19762,51351,50671,87170,665
Total patient revenue (gross charges)unverified$2,263,084,425$2,704,270,346$2,430,504,214$2,653,773,455$3,915,094,202
Contractual allowances and discountsunverified$1,149,470,534$1,943,280,877$1,387,770,277$2,035,257,184$2,176,892,085
Net patient revenueunverified$1,113,613,891$760,989,469$1,042,733,937$618,516,271$1,738,202,117
Total operating expensesunverified$863,327,840$964,055,262$1,224,029,123$820,014,077$1,193,081,279$1,303,912,112
Net income from service to patientsunverified$250,286,051$-203,065,793$-1,224,029,123$222,719,860$-574,565,008$434,290,005
Net incomeunverified$168,899,737$-399,232,300$-1,224,029,123$9,460,668$-794,257,013$131,861,061
Cost of uncompensated careunverified$17,273,926$12,573,420$20,990,875$14,783,540$25,459,922$26,126,019
Total facility bad debt expenseunverified$19,286,925$10,547,321$8,893,008$10,446,799$16,248,243$13,194,666
Charity care charges and uninsured discountsunverified$22,118,587$23,986,525$28,483,496$23,207,627$42,064,928$48,231,704
Cost of charity careunverified$9,656,731$8,718,308$16,672,683$10,467,647$18,865,371$20,972,596
Operating marginunverified22.5%-26.7%21.4%-92.9%25.0%
Overall cost-to-charge ratiounverified38.1%35.6%33.7%45.0%33.3%
Occupancy rateunverified66.7%66.5%65.9%72.6%74.7%72.8%
Average length of stayunverified4.94.44.24.54.53.9
Uncompensated care as % of operating expenseunverified2.0%1.3%1.7%1.8%2.1%2.0%
Charity care cost-to-charge ratiounverified43.7%36.3%58.5%45.1%44.8%43.5%
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