[OC] A comparison of a single hospital’s operating margin vs. its state average and the national median (2015-2021)
Posted by Puzzleheaded-Fish-44
[OC] A comparison of a single hospital’s operating margin vs. its state average and the national median (2015-2021)
Posted by Puzzleheaded-Fish-44
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**Source:** CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System (HCRIS)
**Tool:** Spectral Health
What I find fascinating in this data is the dramatic turnaround for this specific hospital, **CURAHEALTH STOUGHTON (CCN 222002)**. While the state average and national median margins were negative or flat, this hospital went from a -5% margin in 2015 to over 20% by 2021, showing incredible outperformance against its peers.
For anyone interested in the technical side, I wrote a full deep-dive on the SQL methodology used to pull and analyze this data from the raw HCRIS files. You can read it here: [**https://docs.spectralhealth.ai/blog/technical-deep-dive-operating-margin/**](https://docs.spectralhealth.ai/blog/technical-deep-dive-operating-margin/)
It’s probably important to note the hospital in question is a long term acute care hospital which is different than the much more common short term acute care hospital. This one specializes in pulmonary diseases and by definition must average a length of stay over 25 days. Your calculation only includes net patient care revenue but wouldn’t that exclude other revenue sources that could be contributing to the operating income in the numerator?