HCA, CHS-Owned Alaska Hospitals Post Profit Margins Higher Than 25% in 2010

Two for-profit Alaskan hospitals — Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage and Mat-Su Regional Medical Center in Palmer — reported operating margins of 29.4 percent and 25.8 percent, respectively, in 2010, according to a Fairbanks Daily News-Miner report.

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Nashville, Tenn.-based Hospital Corporation of America owns Alaska Regional, and Brentwood, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems owns Mat-Su Regional.

Both hospitals’ figures are well above the community hospital profit margin national average of 5.7 percent, according to the report. Average hospital operating margins in Alaska were 13.4 percent in 2010.

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