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Short-term acute care hospital · Ridgeland, South Carolina · 31 beds · CMS certification number 420074

Low Country General Hospital

Its Medicare cost reports, read cell by cell. Latest filing: fiscal year ended November 10, 2000, settled, stamped by CMS February 28, 2005. Five years on file, every one shown below.

Fiscal 2000 at a glance

Net patient revenue
$3.6M
$3,628,793 · G-3 line 3
Operating expenses
$7.2M
$7,242,152 · G-3 line 4
Result from patient care
−$3.6M
−$3,613,359 · G-3 line 5
Margin on patient care
−99.6%
line 5 ÷ line 3, same filing

What stands out

  • Net patient revenue fell from $4.2M in its first year on file (1996) to $3.6M in 2000.
  • Its result from patient care: −$317K (1998), −$521K (1999), −$3.6M (2000).
  • All 5 short-term acute care hospital peers below with a margin on file also report a loss on patient care for fiscal year 2000.

Every statement is drawn from figures on this page; nothing is estimated.

Five years of filings

Net patient revenue against operating expenses, each year as filed.

Net patient revenueOperating expenses
1996
settled
$4.2M
$5.4M
1997
settled
$3.3M
$4.3M
1998
settled
$3.7M
$4.0M
1999
reopened
$4.3M
$4.8M
2000
settled
$3.6M
$7.2M

Beside its peers

Short-term acute care hospitals in South Carolina with 25 to 49 beds, each on fiscal year 2000.

HospitalBedsNet patient revenueOperating expensesMargin
Low Country General Hospital31$3,628,793$7,242,152−99.6%
Abbeville County Memorial, Abbeville40$13,315,167$14,002,440−5.2%
Allendale County Hospital, Fairfax36$7,012,905$7,141,814−1.8%
B.J. Workman Memorial Hospital, Woodruff43$6,936,271$7,263,463−4.7%
CHS - Kingstree, Kingstree47$11,350,124$11,840,859−4.3%
Edgefield County Hospital, Edgefield40$6,333,762$7,171,544−13.2%

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Figures: CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System, file HOSPFY2000.ZIP, form CMS-2552-96, filed under CMS certification number 420074.

How this page was built: the CMS Medicare cost report, file HOSPFY2000.ZIP, read February 28, 2005.