Ask the Experts: Definition of Bad Debt
What is the standard industry definition for bad debt percentage?
Ask the Expert Answer: Fiscal Intermediary and Medicare Bad Debt
Q Our FI is currently disallowing our Medicare bad debts which we claimed and wrote off in accordance with our charity care policy. We believe our Medicare deductible copay amounts that we did not collect because the patient was indigent
Ask the Experts Answer: Medicare Crossovers to Medicaid Bad Debt
If Medicaid contractualizes all or some of the amount deemed as coinsurance by Medicare, can the contractual amount be claimed as part of the bad debt on the cost report? Or, are we only able to claim the amount that Medicaid notes as being the copay or deductible on the cost report?
Calculating Uncompensated Care Costs
Formulas you can use as a guide to gauge uncompensated care costs within your organization.