Most Pennsylvania acute-care hospitals fared well financially in 2015.
But not all of them.
According to a new report issued by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, total acute-care hospital margins fell 0.01 percentage points in 2015 but operating margins rose 1.21 percentage points.
49 of the state’s 170 acute-care hospitals lost money on operations and 46 lost money overall.
Other highlights:

• uncompensated care fell 8.6 percent
• inpatient days declined for the eighth straight year
• outpatient visits rose 2.5 percent
• 53.7 percent of net patient revenue came from inpatient care

Go here for a news release summarizing PHC4’s finding and go here to see the complete report Financial Analysis 2015: An Annual Report on the Financial Health of Pennsylvania Hospitals, which includes state-wide analyses and performance data on individual hospitals.