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Prepare journal entries to account for the following transactions for Cort Hospital, a governmental hospital that meets the definition of an Enterprise Fund. Also, compute the net patient service revenue calculation that would be reported on the face of the Hospital's statement of operations. a. Cort provided services to patients during the year, billing a total of $59,500,000 at its established rates. b. Included in the services provided in transaction a. were the following: (1) charity cases for which it did not expect to be paid amounting to $2,100,000; (2) contractual adjustments amounting to $15,000,000 based on negotiations with third-party payers, (3) implicit price adjustments for self-pay patients of $2,000,000 and, (4) estimated uncollectible amounts of $500,000. c. Cort collected $36,000,000 from direct-pay and third-party payers. d. At year-end, Cort analyzed the costs incurred under its arrangements with a third-party payer, and estimated that it would need to refund $250,000 to that third-party after submission and audit of its cost report to the third party.

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Both governmental and nonprofit hospitals are required to be present a statement of cash flows, but the statements presented for nonprofit hospitals are different from those presented by governmental hospitals.

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Nonprofit hospitals may receive a variety of contributions that impose donor restrictions, including limitations on the period during which the hospital may use the resources.

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A group of fine dining restaurants in town get together and agree to provide their leftover, unprepared fresh food to the City Hospital for use in its food service operations. The City Hospital estimates that the fair value of the food received during the year was $22,000. How should City Hospital report the donated food?


A) As revenue equal to the fair value of the food when it is received ($22,000 over the course of the year)
B) The fair value of the donated food should be disclosed in the Hospital's notes to financial statements
C) As revenue equal to the amount it estimates the restaurants paid for the food
D) None of the above

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The difference between a nonprofit's hospital's established billing rate and the amount paid by a third-party payer is referred to as:


A) A Medicaid allowance
B) A capitation agreement
C) A charity allowance
D) As an explicit or implicit concession depending on circumstances

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Once a governmental or nonprofit hospital decides that its patient meets the definition of a charity care case, they are no longer permitted to report the fees that are charged for the services provided to that patient as revenue.

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