Soft Bound Version for Advanced Accounting 13th Edition
Soft Bound Version for Advanced Accounting 13th Edition
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ISBN: 9781260110579
Author: Hoyle
Publisher: McGraw Hill Education
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Chapter 18, Problem 22P
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Mercy for America, a private not-for-profit health care facility located in Durham, North Carolina, charged a patient $8,600 for services. It actually billed this amount to the patient’s third-party payor. The third-party payor submitted a check for $7,900 with a note stating that “the reasonable amount is paid in full per contract.” Which of the following statements is true? The patient is responsible for paying the remaining $700. The health care facility will rebill the third-party payor for the remaining $700. The health care facility recorded the $700 as a contractual adjustment that it will not collect. The third-party payor retained the $700 and will convey it to the health care facility at the start of the next fiscal period.
Mercy for America, a private not-for-profit health care facility located in Durham, North Carolina, charged a patient $8,600 for services. It actually billed this amount to the patient’s third-party payor. The third-party payor submitted a check for $7,900 with a note stating that “the reasonable amount is paid in full per contract.” Which of the following statements is true? Choose the correct.a. The patient is responsible for paying the remaining $700.b. The health care facility will rebill the third-party payor for the remaining $700.c. The health care facility recorded the $700 as a contractual adjustment that it will not collect.d. The third-party payor retained the $700 and will convey it to the health care facility at the start of the next fiscal period.
Assume that services during the year included these three patients: Mrs. Marple, a Medicare patient whose stay at Reston Hospital (one of HCA’s owned hospitals) was for 7 days and who received services which HCA assigned in retail charges (otherwise termed gross revenue) of $25,000. The Medicare DRG payment for her case is expected tobe $10,000; Mr. Chan, a patient with little income or assets and one whom the hospital classifies as a charity patient, stayed in the hospital 4 days and received services with gross charges amounting to $18,000; Mr. Friday stayed in the hospital for 3 days and received services with gross charges amounting to $28,000. Although Mr. Friday had no insurance, he did have a significant source of income and had a sizable amount of assets. Attempts by the hospital to locate Mr. Friday to settle his bill have proven fruitless, and currently he has moved and has left no forwarding address. Assume that at the end of the period the status of the bills for the…

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