Thursday, March 20, 2014

Indiana Non-Profit Hospitals Net Assets Up 110% Under Obama and the Affordable Care Act

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) and the Indiana Dept of Health website, I found 10 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations headquartered in the State of Indiana with Net Assets (i.e. Financial Strength or Total Assets minus Total Liabilities) at the most recent date of more than $400 mil each.  Below here are the Net Assets of these 10 at both the most recent reported date and also at the Fiscal Year End (FYE) closest to the beginning of the Obama Administration:






FYE Balance Net




Most
Balance Sheet Assets



Most Recent
Sheet Net %



Recent Balance
Date Assets Change



Balance Sheet
Beginning Beginning During
City State Sheet Net
Obama Obama Obama
Hospital Organization HQs HQs Date Assets
Admin Admin Admin




mil $s

mil $s









Indiana University Health Indianapolis IN Mar 14     4,314
Dec 08       1,434 201%
St Vincent Health Indianapolis IN Jun 13     3,040 Jun 09       1,561 95%
Franciscan Alliance Mishawaka IN Dec 13     2,512
Dec 08       1,463 72%
Parkview Health System Fort Wayne IN Dec 13     1,100
Dec 08          543 103%
Beacon Health System South Bend IN Dec 13     1,034
Dec 08          341 203%
Community Health Network Indianapolis IN Dec 13     1,041
Dec 08          482 116%
Deaconess Health System Evansville IN Mar 14        591
Sep 09          365 62%
St Mary's Health Evansville IN Jun 13        512 Jun 09          292 75%
Community Foundation NW Indiana Munster IN Dec 13        448
Jun 09          289 55%
Reid Hospital Richmond IN Dec 13        405 Dec 08          355 14%









Total all 10


   14,997

       7,125 110%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 10 Indiana Non-Profit Hospital Organizations increased by a spectacularly off-the-charts 110% to $14.997 bil for their average 4.73 years so far during the Obama Administration.

Very positively impacting this phenomenal increase in the Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 10 Indiana Hospital Organizations 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 spectacular increase in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 10 Indiana Non-Profit Hospital Organizations.

A remarkable thing is that these very robust increases in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these Non-Profit Hospital Organizations occurred when these Non-Profit Hospitals, and especially the Indiana Hospitals, were also playing very instrumental roles in the substantial annual percentage growth reduction of Total US Health Care Costs which occurred in each of the most recent three years under the ACA.

With such extremely impressive Net Asset percentage increases of these 10 Indiana Hospitals, a key beneficiary of this will be Indiana citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This very strong Net Asset growth gives these Indiana Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital and other health care procedures in their negotiations with health insurance companies which ultimately determines what insurance premium prices are set at by health insurance companies on the Health Insurance Exchange.

If the State of Indiana were to take the logical next step and fully expand Medicaid, then the profits and Net Assets of all Indiana Hospitals and particularly the smaller, struggling ones would be substantially strengthened financially.  Thus lower insurance premiums on the Health Insurance Exchange would result since this enhanced Net Asset growth gives all of these Indiana Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital procedures in their negotiations with health insurance companies which ultimately determines what insurance premium prices are set at by health insurance companies on the Health Insurance Exchange.  

Wishard Health Services Safety Net Hospital System

The Indianapolis-based  Wishard Health Services is a Component Unit of the Marion County Government and thus is a Public Non-Profit Governmental Unit.  It is also a Safety Net Hospital System serving the Indianapolis inner city.

Given its Safety Net mission in a large city, Wishard has generated massive Losses totaling $1.063 bil over the most recent 5 years, which have effectively been funded by Indiana Taxpayers.

Indiana Struggling Hospitals

From EMMA and also from the audited hospital financial statements contained in the State of Indiana's Dept of Health website, in addition to Wishard Health Services, there were another 18 Indiana Hospitals with Operating Income as a Percentage of Total Operating Revenues of 2.5% or less in their most recent audited fiscal year.  The chart below shows these 19 Indiana Hospitals:





Recent



Operating Annual

Operating Total Income Fiscal

City Income Operating (Loss) Year

HQs (Loss) Revenues Margin End


mils $s mils $s %
Indiana Hospital Organizations










Wishard Health Services Indianapolis             (139.4)             380.9 -36.6% Dec 2012
Scott Memorial Hospital Scottsburg                 (2.4)              20.5 -11.7% Dec 2012
Putnam County Hospital Greencastle                 (1.4)              33.6 -4.2% Dec 2012
DeKalb Memorial Hospital Auburn                 (1.3)              58.1 -2.2% Sep 2013
Pulaski Memorial Hospital Winamac                 (0.5)              24.1 -2.1% Sep 2013
Gibson General Hospital Princeton                 (0.4)              31.3 -1.3% Dec 2013
Daviess Community Hospital Washington                 (0.5)              52.3 -1.0% Dec 2012
Harrison County Hospital Corydon                 (0.3)              45.5 -0.7% Dec 2012
Clark Memorial Hospital Jeffersonville                 (1.0)             172.8 -0.6% Dec 2012
Henry County Hospital New Castle                 (0.1)             102.7 -0.1% Dec 2012
Union Hospital Terre Haute                  4.9             412.0 1.2% Aug 2013
Howard Regional Health Kokomo                  1.0              80.4 1.2% Jun 2012
Franciscan Alliance Mishawaka                37.9          2,608.9 1.5% Dec 2013
Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Indianapolis                  0.6              37.9 1.6% Dec 2012
Reid Hospital Richmond                  6.2             351.8 1.8% Dec 2012
Sullivan County Community Hosp Sullivan                  0.5              26.2 1.9% Dec 2013
Perry County Memorial Hospital Tell City                  0.7              35.6 2.0% Dec 2012
Fayette Regional Health Connersville                  1.4              57.0 2.5% Sep 2013
Jay County Hospital Portland                  0.9              35.6 2.5% Sep 2013






Total all 19
              (93.2)          4,567.2 -2.0%

By far the best and only way to put a major dent in Wishard's massive Operating Losses and also losses or very modest profits of other struggling Indiana Hospitals is for the State of Indiana to fully expand Medicaid.  There would be a resultant massive inflow of Patient Revenues from Medicaid expansion, and thus Wishard and other struggling Indiana Hospitals would be able to substantially reduce their Operating Losses.

In addition, one of the key beneficiaries of the resultant very healthy profit improvement and thus also Total Net Assets improvement of all Indiana Hospitals due to Medicaid expansion in Indiana would be Indiana citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This exceptional Net Asset growth from Medicaid expansion will give all Indiana Hospitals the financial flexibility to moderate their pricing for hospital and other health care procedures in their negotiations with health insurance companies which ultimately determines what insurance premium prices are set at by health insurance companies on the Health Insurance Exchange.