Saturday, March 31, 2012

US Big Hospital Corps Annual 2011 Earnings Growth Fair Under Affordable HealthCare Act

There are 18 US Big Hospital and Healthcare Services Corps, which file with the SEC, and which generated Pretax Income of more than $100 mil in any of the most recent three years.

The one that dominates is Nashville, TN-based giant HCA.

These 18 US Big Hospital and Healthcare Services Corps generated Total Pretax Income of $7.8 bil in 2011, which resulted in a solid, but fair, earnings growth of 12% in 2011 over 2010, and of 25% for the two years from 2009 to 2011.

In deriving Pretax Income, I start with Pretax Income under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and then exclude several clearly unusual very large items relative to Pretax Income, such as Special Legal Charges and Credits, Asset Impairments, Gains/Losses on Debt Retirements, and Gains/Losses on Asset Sales.

Just like the Health Insurance Corps, these Hospitals and Healthcare Service Corps will be receiving huge economic benefits down the road in 2014 when the Affordable Healthcare Act totally kicks in, and their number of patients/customers served increase substantially.


Below here is the Pretax Income (PTI) of these 18 US Big Hospital and Healthcare Services Corps for each of the most recent three years.






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Bump




PTI PTI

1 Year 2 Year

PTI PTI PTI % %

2011 2010 2009 Change Change
mils $s mils $s mils $s

Hospitals and Health Services




HCA 2,520 2,231 2,002 13% 26%
DaVita 893 818 758 9% 18%
Universal Health Svcs 696 481 475 45% 47%
Communy Health Sys 540 519 448 4% 21%
Mednax 353 311 288 14% 23%
Health Mgt Associates 337 287 228 17% 48%
Lincare Holdings 290 298 223 -3% 30%
Healthsouth 282 190 145 48% 94%
Tenet Healthcare 278 215 108 29% 157%
LifePoint Hospitals 263 241 222 9% 18%
Amsurg 227 213 211 7% 8%
Select Medical 215 124 102 73% 111%
VCA Antech 197 192 220 3% -10%
Magellan Health Svcs 195 222 164 -12% 19%
UnitedSurgicalPartners 183 142 160 29% 14%
Chemed 141 134 121 5% 17%
Amedisys 101 203 229 -50% -56%
Iasis Healthcare 95 121 131 -21% -27%




Total all 18 7,806 6,942 6,235 12% 25%