Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions). Our first question comes from Jerry Doctrow with Stifel Nicolaus.
Jerry Doctrow - Stifel Nicolaus
Hello. A handful of things, some little and some sort of bigger. Just, Fran, I think you mentioned this, but I had missed it, was just the amount that SNH reimbursed you in the quarter for CapEx?
Fran Murphy
It was $11.5 million, Jerry.
Jerry Doctrow - Stifel Nicolaus
Okay, thanks. Then what’s your additional money that you spent on your own maintenance CapEx in the quarter?
Fran Murphy
Well, we are always spending money on our own CapEx.
Jerry Doctrow - Stifel Nicolaus
Was the 11.5 million was your total CapEx spending in the quarter or you had stuff due out of pocket for as well?
Fran Murphy
We always have a balance of CapEx available to sell to Senior Housing going forward. We took that balance down a little bit. So in the quarter we spent $12.2 million and we were reimbursed $11.5 million.
Jerry Doctrow - Stifel Nicolaus
Okay, great. Thanks. I guess on the expense side, Brookdale reported last night this morning, actually did a very nice job on margin. So I was trying to sort out, I guess, on the big jump in sort of healthcare spending. Would margins have been better or where would your kind of wage costs have been? Was that kind of the issue and whether expense is kind of under control or other issues there as well?
Bruce Mackey
Yeah, Jerry, it’s Bruce. In the most part expenses were under control. We’ve done a very good job of managing our labor overall. If we look at some of our stats that we track on a regular basis, labor as a percentage of revenues without benefits wasn’t at an all-time low, but it was close to it over time and third-party agency costs were at all-time lows. We’ve done a very good job managing those costs. But health insurance really picked up significantly in the quarter. Like Fran said, we looked at about a 35% increase, ballpark $3.3 million, that was significantly more than we’d anticipated and we do expect that to be going down in the future.
Jerry Doctrow - Stifel Nicolaus
Just in terms of thinking about it like next quarter, I mean, does all of that go away or do you have any sense of sort of where we should be thinking about it for next quarter?
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