LCMC Health

Louisiana Children's Medical Center (lcmc) is a Louisiana non-stock not-for-profit corporation that was incorporated in 2009, with its founding member being Children's hospital (children's). Through a health care system agreement (system agreement) between lcmc, children's, touro infirmary and its subsidiaries (touro), university healthcare system l.c. (ejgh and tulane) and cooperative endeavor agreements (ceas) with university Medical Center management corporation (umcmc) and west jefferson holdings, llc (west jefferson), these parties have determined that together they can provide a multi-hospital, not-for-profit community-based, system that will provide a continuum of care to the families of the gulf south region. Lcmc, children's, touro, umcmc, ejgh and west (continued on schedule o) jefferson are hereinafter collectively referred to as the system. Lcmc functions as the system parent with reserve powers to be exercised to promote the best interests of the system and its affiliates. All corporate powers of the system are vested in the board of trustees of lcmc. Children's provides comprehensive pediatric healthcare that meets the special needs of children through excellence and continuous improvement of patient care, education, and research. Touro, formed in 1852, serves the greater new orleans community as a premier, diverse, multi-specialty hospital, caring for the sick regardless of race, color, creed, religious affiliation, or ability to pay. Umcmc operates university Medical Center in new orleans (umc). Umcmc is a provider of charity care for the uninsured and plays a vital role as a statewide referral Center for patients in need of tertiary care. Umcmc also provides Medical and allied health training through its affiliation with academic institutions to strengthen and enhance opportunities to achieve the state's Medical education, clinical care, and research goals.in tax year 2023, lcmc and its affiliates provided total community benefit expense of $1,326 million. This amount represented 42% of the affiliates combined total expense. Lcmc and its affiliates provides services to many low-income residents of the greater new orleans area. In 2023, $970 million in expense (31% of the affiliates combined total expense) was incurred in providing services for medicaid recipients and in providing financial assistance. Touro, children's, and other health care providers in Louisiana have collaborated with the state and units of local government in Louisiana, to more fully fund the medicaid program and ensure the availability of quality healthcare services for the low income and needy residents in the community population. The provision for this charity care directly to low income and needy patients will result in the alleviation of the expense of public funds the governmental entities previously expended on such care, thereby allowing the governmental entities to increase support for the state medicaid program up to the federal medicaid upper payment limits (upl). Each state's methodology must comply with its state plan and be approved by the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms). Federal matching funds are not available for medicaid payments that exceed upls. In tax year 2023, the system received upl payments of approximately $519.5 million, which are included in direct offsetting revenue on part i, line 7b in schedule h of the respective hospital's 990s.

Community health services and community benefit operations provide free health education programs and screenings to the community. These programs are designed to focus on some of the most prevalent diseases within the community, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These programs address prevention, early detection, treatment and maintaining healthy lifestyles.

The system provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency and critical care, home health, and rehabilitation services. The system has a total of 895 licensed patient beds. The system treated 36,259 inpatients and had 176,830 outpatient visits during 2023. There were 28,158 surgeries (inpatient, outpatient, and ambulatory surgery Center), 157,128 emergency department visits and 4,133 babies delivered. The system had 364,725 primary care and specialty clinic vists in 2023.