Oregon Non-Profit Hospitals Net Assets Up 46% Under Obama and the Affordable Care Act

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA), I found 3 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations headquartered in the State of Oregon with Net Assets at the most recent date reported of more than $400 mil each.  Below here are the Net Assets of these 3 at both the most recent reported date and also at the beginning of the Obama Administration:

						2008	2008	Obama
				Most		or	or	ACA
			Most	Recent		2009	2009	and
			Recent	Balance		FYE	Balance	US Fed
			Balance	Sheet		Balance	Sheet	Bump
	City	State	Sheet	Net		Sheet	Net	%
Hospital Organization	HQs	HQs	Date	Assets		Date	Assets	Change
				mil $s			mil $s
Oregon Health & Science University	Portland	OR	Jun 13	2,169		Jun 09	1,570	38%
Legacy Health System	Portland	OR	Jun 13	962		Mar 09	618	56%
Asante Health System	Medford	OR	Jun 13	503		Sep 09	294	71%
Total all 3				3,634			2,482	46%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets of these 3 Oregon Non-Profit Hospital Organizations increased by 46% to $3.634 bil during the Obama Administration.

In the most recent four years, the very prestigious Oregon Health & Science University generated Total Bottom Line Profit (Excess of Revenues over Expenses) of $443 mil, which was 5.7% of Total Revenues over the same time span.

In the four years ended March 31, 2013, Legacy Health System generated Total Bottom Line Profit (Excess of Revenues over Expenses) of $368 mil, which was 7.0% of Total Revenues over the same time span.

Very positively impacting this major increase in the Net Assets (Financial Strength) of all of these hospitals were actions taken by both the Obama Administration and the US Fed to strengthen the US Financial Foundation which was severely damaged from the financial meltdown in late 2008.

In addition, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has also played a key role in this increase in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these Non-Profit Hospital Organizations.

A remarkable thing is that these robust increases in Net Assets of these Non-Profit Hospital Organizations occurred when these Non-Profit Hospitals were also able to substantially bend down the Total US Health Care Cost Curve in each of the most recent three years.

With future Non-Profit Hospital Organizations' Hospital Operating Income being bolstered by both many of the Uninsured getting insurance and by the many of the Underinsured getting much better insurance, both under the ACA,  future Net Asset growth of these Non-Profit Hospital Organizations should be very robust.  And for States electing to expand Medicaid, this future Net Asset growth will be exceptionally robust.