Reveiw of Medicare Part B Debts at Erlanger Medical Center for the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2005

摘要

Erlanger Medical Center (Erlanger) is an 819-bed acute care and 50 bed long-term care hospital located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Erlanger includes a Level I trauma center, a teaching center, and a tertiary care services center. On its hospital cost report for July 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005, Erlanger claimed 1,111,024 (777,717 reimbursement) for Medicare outpatient bad debts (bad debts). Our objective was to determine whether bad debts claimed on Erlangers FY 2005 hospital cost report were allowable under Medicare regulations and were reduced by bad debt recoveries.