New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations Net Income 8.4% of Revenues in 2013

From a review of audited annual financial statements shown at Electronic Municipal Market Access (EMMA), I found 7 New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations with Net Assets above $400 mil each and which have or will have soon audited financial statements in each of the most recent 4 years.

These 7 New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations generated Total Bottom Line Net Income of a very solid 8.4% of Total Operating Revenues in 2013.

The main contributor to these strong operating results in 2013 was Virtua Health.

The only problem with these strong operating results in 2013 for some of these New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations was that instead of taking the high road and responsibly reducing their Patient Service Pricing, these New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations elected to retain these excessively high Bottom Line Profits, which also added to both their Net Assets and treasure chest of Investments in Stocks and Bonds.

Below are the Bottom Line Net Income and Total Operating Revenues for each of these 7 New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations for 2013:

		Most	2013
		Recent	Bottom	2013	2013
		Fiscal	Line	Total	Net
		Year	Net	Operating	Income
New Jersey Hospital Organ	City HQs	End	Income	Revenues	Margin
			mil $s	mil $s	%
Non-Profit Hospitals
Virtua Health Obligated Group	Marlton	Dec 13	187	1,092	17.1%
Robert W Johnson University Hosp	New Brunswick	Dec 13	102	834	12.2%
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center	Galloway	Dec 13	71	633	11.2%
Meridian Hospitals	Red Bank	Dec 13	120	1,396	8.6%
Barnabas Health	West Orange	Dec 13	176	2,536	6.9%
Hackensack University Medical Ctr	Hackensack	Dec 13	77	1,435	5.4%
AHS (Atlantic Health System) Hosp	Morristown	Dec 13	70	1,625	4.3%
Total all 7			803	9,551	8.4%

There is a very positive aspect to these very high Bottom Line Profits of some of these New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations.  These incredibly high Profits are getting added to the Net Assets (Financial Strength) of these New Jersey Hospital Organizations.

Thus a key beneficiary of this should be New Jersey citizens electing to buy health insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.  This exceptional Net Asset growth driven by these exceedingly high Bottom Line Profits gives these New Jersey Hospital Organizations 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.

And armed with audited financial data concerning the excessively high profits earned by some of these New Jersey Non-Profit Hospital Organizations, Health Insurance Companies should be able to do a much better job in representing their policy holders, including those getting Health Insurance on the Health Insurance Exchange.

And there's an added factor in New Jersey's case which should drive down Health Insurance Premiums on the Health Insurance Exchange even more.  New Jersey passed full Medicaid expansion and there is an additional real beauty with full Medicaid expansion.  It increases nearly every Hospital's profits so much that Hospitals just have to reduce their Hospital charges very substantially and they also will be much more reasonable in negotiating Hospital Charges with Health Insurance Companies.  Thus it is only logical that this will also result in much lower Health Insurance Premiums on the Health Insurance Exchange.