HCRIS X-Ray — WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER
CCN 010089 · 207 beds · FY2022
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HCRIS-Native Peer X-Ray
WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER
15 peers · same-state + same-year · 15 pool, top 15 shown · benchmarked on 15 metrics
CCN 010089 · FY2022 · JASPER, AL
WALKER BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTERTREND · IMPROVING · 3Y
Beds
207
Community
Patient Days
22,608
29.9% occupancy
Medicare Day Share
21.1%
moderate
NPR (filed)
$108.7M
$525K / bed
Operating Margin
18.2%
Strong
Payer Diversity
0.58
1 − HHI of day mix
Plain-English read: Biggest peer gap: Patient days is 22,608 vs peer median 50,857 (-55.5%, below peer P25). Strongest outperformance: Operating margin at 18.2% vs median -0.9% (+2108.7%).
Peer benchmark · target vs P25 / median / P75 · same-state + same-year · 15 pool, top 15 shown
Size
Metric
Target
Peer P25
Peer Median
Peer P75
Variance
Trend · Distribution
Beds
licensed bed count
207
178
208
223
-0.5%
IN-BAND
Patient days
total inpatient days filed
22,608
35,493
50,857
57,381
-55.5%
BELOW PEER
Occupancy rate
patient days ÷ bed days available
29.9%
50.0%
65.3%
77.9%
-54.2%
BELOW PEER
Payer Mix
Metric
Target
Peer P25
Peer Median
Peer P75
Variance
Trend · Distribution
Medicare day share
share of inpatient days covered by Medicare
21.1%
17.2%
22.7%
27.2%
-7.0%
IN-BAND
Medicaid day share
share of inpatient days covered by Medicaid
21.0%
9.9%
15.7%
22.5%
+33.6%
IN-BAND
Commercial / other day share
commercial + self-pay day share (higher = better economics)
57.9%
57.1%
60.7%
63.5%
-4.6%
IN-BAND
Payer diversity
1 − HHI of day mix; 0 = single-payer, 0.67 = balanced across 3
0.58
0.50
0.53
0.56
+9.5%
ABOVE PEER
Revenue Cycle
Metric
Target
Peer P25
Peer Median
Peer P75
Variance
Trend · Distribution
NPR per bed
net patient revenue ÷ beds
525,184 $
759,671 $
919,055 $
1,207,918 $
-42.9%
BELOW PEER
NPR per patient day
net patient revenue ÷ total patient days
4,809 $
3,449 $
4,104 $
4,159 $
+17.2%
ABOVE PEER
Contractual allowance rate
contractual allowances ÷ gross patient revenue
90.4%
68.8%
79.8%
89.6%
+13.3%
BELOW PEER
Net-to-gross ratio
NPR ÷ gross patient revenue (collection-rate proxy)
9.6%
10.2%
20.2%
30.5%
-52.3%
BELOW PEER
Cost Structure
Metric
Target
Peer P25
Peer Median
Peer P75
Variance
Trend · Distribution
Opex per bed
operating expenses ÷ beds
429,423 $
778,870 $
921,796 $
1,157,376 $
-53.4%
ABOVE PEER
Opex per patient day
operating expenses ÷ total patient days
3,932 $
3,574 $
4,173 $
4,412 $
-5.8%
IN-BAND
Margin
Metric
Target
Peer P25
Peer Median
Peer P75
Variance
Trend · Distribution
Operating margin
(NPR − opex) ÷ NPR
18.2%
-6.4%
-0.9%
2.3%
+2108.7%
ABOVE PEER
Net income margin
net income ÷ NPR
18.2%
-6.4%
-0.9%
2.3%
+2108.7%
ABOVE PEER
How to read: Target column is the filed value from the hospital's most recent Medicare cost report. P25 / median / P75 are drawn from the 15 peer hospitals matched on size cohort, state, payer mix, and fiscal year. Variance is signed % vs peer median; green chip = better than peers on this metric; red chip = worse than peers; amber/neutral = inside the P25-P75 band.
Public market context · Seeking Alpha hospital comps
Target operating margin +18.2% beats public-comp median +14.2% by 4.0 pp. Public comps trade at a median EV/EBITDA of ~9x; target-implied multiple should adjust for the margin delta + size discount.
| Ticker | Company | Op Margin | Target Δ | EV/EBITDA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HCA | HCA Healthcare | +16.9% | +1.3pp | 8.9× |
| THC | Tenet Healthcare | +14.2% | +4.0pp | 8.8× |
| UHS | Universal Health Services | +11.5% | +6.7pp | 7.4× |
| ARDT | Ardent Health Partners | +7.8% | +10.4pp | 10.2× |
Public-hospital comps are curated from 10-K / analyst consensus via → Seeking Alpha Market Intel. Margin delta × $ of NPR ≈ the EBITDA gap between the target and the public bench.
Peer roster
| CCN | Hospital | State | Beds | FY | Medicare % | Op Margin | NPR ($M) | Distance | Same-state | Same-region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 010114 | UAB MEDICAL WEST | AL | 204 | 2022 | 17.7% | -12.5% | 142.7 | 0.331 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010016 | SHELBY BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 212 | 2022 | 22.7% | -0.9% | 161.1 | 0.409 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010040 | GADSDEN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 219 | 2022 | 22.7% | +2.3% | 174.6 | 0.589 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010149 | BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER EAST | AL | 208 | 2022 | 12.6% | -9.9% | 169.5 | 0.737 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010019 | HELEN KELLER HOSPITAL | AL | 178 | 2022 | 30.3% | -28.0% | 92.0 | 0.753 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010005 | MARSHALL MEDICAL CENTERS SOUTH | AL | 178 | 2022 | 26.1% | -6.3% | 186.9 | 0.794 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010055 | FLOWERS HOSPITAL | AL | 193 | 2022 | 27.2% | +14.2% | 235.5 | 0.891 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010046 | RIVERVIEW REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 256 | 2022 | 27.9% | -3.6% | 101.5 | 0.978 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010144 | SPRINGHILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | AL | 179 | 2022 | 20.6% | -3.8% | 216.2 | 1.007 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010006 | NORTH ALABAMA MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 223 | 2022 | 30.9% | +0.5% | 259.5 | 1.045 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010103 | PRINCETON BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 261 | 2022 | 17.2% | +2.3% | 216.3 | 1.183 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010131 | CRESTWOOD MEDICAL CENTER | AL | 164 | 2022 | 28.9% | +14.6% | 258.9 | 1.235 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010087 | USA HEALTH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | AL | 242 | 2022 | 14.8% | -6.4% | 348.5 | 1.326 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 010100 | THOMAS HOSPITAL | AL | 164 | 2022 | 26.8% | +6.2% | 244.7 | 1.365 | ✓ | ✓ |
| 013301 | USA CHILDRENS AND WOMENS HOSPITAL | AL | 249 | 2022 | 0.2% | -0.3% | 228.8 | 1.924 | ✓ | ✓ |
Cross-reference · pre-seeded with HCRIS-filed NPR, operating margin + peer-median 9.0× entry cap structure
EV
$178M (9.0× $19.8M EBITDA) · Equity $75M · Debt $103M · override any of these on the destination page.JSON export — full X-Ray payload
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