Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tennessee Non-Profit & Publicly-held Hospitals Net Assets Up 4,559% Under Obama and the Affordable Care Act

From a review of the Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA) and financial statements in SEC filings, I found 7 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations and 5 Publicly-held Hospital Companies headquartered in the State of Tennessee with Net Assets (i.e. Financial Strength or Total Assets minus Total Liabilities) at the most recent date reported in 2013 of more than $400 mil each or a Net Deficit in Net Assets of more than $(400) mil each.  Below here are the Net Assets (Deficits) of these 12 Tennessee Hospital Organizations 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 Organizations HQs HQs Date Assets
Admin Admin Admin




mil $s

mil $s
Non-Profit Hospital Organizations







St Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis TN Mar 14     3,424
Jun 09       1,907 80%
Baptist Memorial Health Care Memphis TN Dec 13     1,840
Sep 09       1,501 23%
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare Memphis TN Dec 13     1,189
Dec 08          451 164%
Covenant Health Knoxville TN Dec 13        987
Dec 08          614 61%
Mountain States Health Alliance Johnson City TN Dec 13        698
Jun 09          450 55%
West Tennessee Healthcare Jackson TN Dec 13        535
Jun 09          425 26%
Wellmont Health System Kingsport TN Dec 13        520
Jun 09          325 60%









Total all 7 Non-Profit Hospital Organizations

    9,193

      5,673 62%









Publicly-held Hospital Companies







Community Health Systems Franklin TN Mar 14     3,786
Dec 08       1,673 126%
LifePoint Hospitals Brentwood TN Mar 14     2,143
Dec 08       1,656 29%
Amsurg Nashville TN Mar 14     1,146
Dec 08          463 148%
Acadia Healthcare Franklin TN Mar 14        496
Dec 08            16 3000%
HCA Nashville TN Mar 14   (6,467)
Dec 08      (9,260) 30%









Total all 5 Publicly-held Hospital Companies

    1,104

     (5,452) NM









Total all 12 Non-Profit & Publicly-held Hospital Organizations
  10,297

         221 4559%

As you can see from the above chart, the Total Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 12 Tennessee Hospital Organizations increased by a phenomenally off-the-charts 4,559% from only $0.221 bil to $10.297 bil during their average 4.90 years so far of the Obama Administration.

Very positively impacting this massive increase in the Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 12 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 increase in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these 12 Tennessee Hospital Organizations.

A remarkable thing is that these robust increases in Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these Tennessee Hospital Organizations occurred when these 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 incredible, almost unbelievable, Net Asset percentage increases of these 12 Tennessee Hospitals, a key beneficiary of this will be Tennessee citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  And since the 5 Publicly-held Tennessee Hospital Companies have Hospitals located all over the US, citizens in many US States electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange will also be key beneficiaries.  This massive Net Asset growth gives these Tennessee Hospital Organizations 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.    

Vanderbilt University

None of the above amounts have anything to do with Vanderbilt University since Vanderbilt hasn't disclosed the amount of its Total Net Assets (Financial Strength or Excess of Total Assets over Total Liabilities) related to its renown Health Institutions, which are very salient to the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Thanks primarily to the exceptional stock market during the Obama Administration, Vanderbilt University as a whole has seen its Total Net Assets grow by 31% during its most recent 4 Fiscal Years (FYs) ending June 30, 2013, going from $4.078 bil at June 30, 2009 to $5.339 bil at June 30, 2013.  These 4 FYs are completely during the Obama Administration.

Below here are the Total Operating Revenues and Total Operating Expenses of Vanderbilt University's Health Care Operations for each of the most recent 4 FYs:


Vanderbilt University:  Health Care Operating Results




 




Total





Four

FY 2013 FY 2012 FY 2011 FY 2010 FYs

mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s mil $s






Health Care Operating Revenues         2,394         2,462         2,427         2,279             9,562
Health Care Operating Expenses         2,326         2,221         2,180         2,059             8,786

   



=Health Care Operating Income              68            241            247            220               776






HC Oper Income as % of HC Oper Revenues 2.8% 9.8% 10.2% 9.7% 8.1%

The really negative part above related to the goal of controlling Total US Heath Care Costs is that Vanderbilt University's Health Care Operating Income as a Percentage of its Health Care Operating Revenues was exceedingly high in each of the 3 FYs June 2012, 2011 and 2010, in a range of 9.7% to 10.2%.  This 9.7% to 10.2% doesn't have any Investment Returns in it, but it still is a bit higher than the Total Bottom Line Profit as a Percentage of Total Revenues for the pristine 30 Dow Industrial Companies.  This isn't right.....not even close to being right.

On the positive side related to the goal of controlling Total US Heath Care Costs is that Vanderbilt University's Health Care Operating Income as a Percentage of its Health Care Operating Revenues in the most recent FY June 2013 dropped dramatically to 2.8%.

The key beneficiaries of this substantially reduced Vanderbilt University Health Care Profit Margin Percentages in the most recent year will be Tennessee citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange. 

Tennessee Many Struggling Hospitals

The State of Tennessee in its Dept of Health website discloses key operating statement information annually for each of its Tennessee individual Hospitals.  The most recent annual Hospital Operating Statement information contained there was for annual fiscal year ended in 2012.

There were 162 individual Tennessee Hospitals presented in the Tennessee Dept of Health website.  Of these 162, 130 of them were either General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals or Medical Centers.

Of these 130 General Hospitals, Specialty Hospitals or Medical Centers, an amazingly high number of 41 of them, or 32% of them, experienced Operating Losses in 2012.  Below here is a list of these 41:




2012

2012 2012 Operating

General Hospital Operating Total Profit
Tennessee Specialty Hospital Profit Operating  (Loss)
County Or Medical Center (Loss) Revenues Margin


$000s $000s %





Haywood Haywood Park Community Hospital      (5,268)             6,608 -79.7%
Carroll McKenzie Regional Hospital      (5,094)           11,959 -42.6%
Sumner Portland Medical Center         (234)               581 -40.3%
Hickman Hickman Community Hospital      (3,056)             9,923 -30.8%
McMinn Woods Memorial Hospital      (5,453)           18,282 -29.8%
Henderson Henderson County Community Hospital      (3,243)           12,058 -26.9%
Smith Riverview Regional Medical Center South      (4,227)           18,879 -22.4%
Hamilton Erlanger North      (1,258)             6,317 -19.9%
Marion Grandview Medical Center      (5,137)           25,941 -19.8%
Clay Cumberland River Hospital      (1,433)             7,459 -19.2%
Roane Roane Medical Center      (5,025)           30,151 -16.7%
Houston Patients' Choice Medical Center of Erin      (1,036)             6,415 -16.1%
Bedford Heritage Medical Center      (5,260)           33,576 -15.7%
McNairy McNairy Regional Hospital      (2,531)           16,998 -14.9%
Carroll Baptist Memorial Hospital-Huntingdon      (2,008)           13,677 -14.7%
Davidson Skyline Medical Center Campus      (2,757)           23,344 -11.8%
Gibson Gibson General Hospital         (687)             6,031 -11.4%
Hamblen Lakeway Regional Hospital      (4,278)           38,150 -11.2%
Shelby Baptist Memorial Hospital-Collierville      (5,542)           50,741 -10.9%
Bledsoe Erlanger-Bledsoe         (841)             7,952 -10.6%
Greene Laughlin Memorial Hospital      (5,427)           57,261 -9.5%
Weakley Volunteer Community Hospital      (1,877)           25,159 -7.5%
Coffee Medical Center of Manchester         (831)           11,344 -7.3%
Unicoi Unicoi County Memorial Hospital      (1,009)           16,255 -6.2%
Shelby Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women      (4,222)           72,836 -5.8%
Dickson Horizon Medical Center      (3,912)           68,351 -5.7%
Gibson Humboldt General Hospital         (409)             7,343 -5.6%
Loudon Fort Loudon Medical Center      (1,315)           25,769 -5.1%
Hancock Wellmont Hancock County Hospital         (281)             5,580 -5.0%
Knox Tennova Healthcare    (11,480)         239,019 -4.8%
Blount Blount Memorial Hospital      (6,445)         168,246 -3.8%
Shelby Delta Medical Center      (1,608)           43,723 -3.7%
Hamilton Erlanger Medical Center    (14,813)         491,009 -3.0%
Macon Macon County General Hospital         (310)           10,487 -3.0%
Washington Franklin Woods Community Hospital      (1,077)           49,226 -2.2%
Cheaton Centennial Medical Center Ashland City         (182)             9,482 -1.9%
Hamblen Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System      (1,245)           83,122 -1.5%
Shelby Methodist Healthcare-Memphis Hospitals      (5,793)         542,196 -1.1%
Davidson Metro Nashville General Hospital         (762)         102,513 -0.7%
Sevier LeConte Medical Center         (449)           61,241 -0.7%
Cumberland Cumberland Medical Center         (107)           96,474 -0.1%






Total all 41  (127,922)      2,531,678 -5.1%

When a State has 32% of its Hospitals generating Operating Losses, then it has a huge problem with the financial quality of its State Hospitals.

By far the best and only way to solve this financially devastating problem is for the State of Tennessee to fully expand Medicaid and quickly.  If Tennessee did this, with the resultant massive  inflow of Patient Revenues from Medicaid expansion, all of these financially struggling Tennessee Hospitals would get substantial operating profit improvement and thus also a very nice Net Asset improvement.

If Tennessee were to expand Medicaid, one of the key beneficiaries of this resultant very healthy improvement in the Total Net Assets of all Tennessee Hospitals would be Tennessee citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This exceptional Net Asset growth from Medicaid expansion would give all Tennessee 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.