Ask the Expert: Patient Price Estimation
Advice for revenue cycle leaders on HFMA and online resources for determining patient price estimation.
Managed Care Ask the Expert Answer – Medical Cost Trends
Q I have a question that I am hoping you can answer. What is medical cost trends for the private sector in 2010? I know that the Costs were expected to grow 9.6% in 2009 compared with 9.9% in 2008.
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?
Ask the Expert: Achieving Transparency
Q Are there any best practices that you can recommend for transparency?
Ask the Expert: Matching Billing to Service Under One Tax ID
We have a variety of business units that bill off different billing systems for unique service lines. How can I get only the funds for each billing area correctly remitted just to that unit?
Calculating Uncompensated Care Costs
Formulas you can use as a guide to gauge uncompensated care costs within your organization.
Ask the Expert: Recording Meaningful Use Payments
HFMA's Principles & Practices Board is working on publishing guidance on the recording of meaningful use payments.
HFMA comments on FASB proposed ASU Revenue Recognition (Topic 605)
HFMA's P&P Board comments on the proposed ASU Revenue Recognition (Topic 605), Revenue from Contract with Customers, that would affect entities that enter into contracts.
P&P Board Statement 11: Accounting and Reporting for Risk Contracts
Principles and Practices Board Statement No. 11 deals with the unique accounting considerations providers of healthcare services confront when entering into risk contracts.