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Review of Medicare Bad Debts at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital

Issued on  | Posted on  | Report number: A-04-00-06005

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

This final report points out that the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital (UAB Hospital) claimed $7,203,293 in Medicare bad debts on its 1997 cost report.  Of that amount, only $1,775,045 represented allowable Medicare bad debts because UAB Hospital had not fully developed a patient accounts receivable system to accumulate complete, accurate, and timely Medicare bad debts.  We recommended that UAB Hospital improve its patient accounts receivable system and claim only $1,775,045 as Medicare bad debts on its 1997 cost report.


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