Its own employees cost it $27.68 an hour that year, a premium of 74%. Narrower than the typical North Carolina nursing home that year, which sat at 90%; against a national median of 99%.
The hospital reported both figures itself, on the same line of the same federal form.
| Fiscal year | Employed hour | Contract hour | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2021 | $21.32 | $50.00 | |
| FY2022 | $22.90 | $50.00 | |
| FY2023 | $24.74 | $49.99 | |
| FY2024 | $27.68 | $48.27 |
No usable filing for FY2025, either because the hospital reported no contract labour that year or because the figures it filed did not survive a plausibility check.
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Check your splitThe Laurels Of Pender files Form CMS-2540-10 with Medicare every year. Worksheet S-3 Part II, line 13, reports total adjusted salaries, which is what it paid its own staff once physicians and excluded units are taken out. Line 14 reports contract labour. Both lines carry an hourly rate the facility calculates itself, and the premium here is one measured against the other.
The premium is the gap in hourly cost to the facility. It is not an agency profit margin, because the contract rate also carries the agency’s payroll taxes, insurance, credentialing and overhead, and the employed rate excludes the facility’s own benefits.
This form does not separate contract patient care from contract management the way the hospital form does, so line 14 carries both. A home that contracts out its administrator raises its own contract rate here.