title: Dealing confidently with IRS, Part I: Preparing for IRS audits.
abstract: With the IRS apparently making health care institutions the focus of a nationwide audit emphasis, hospital administrators will want to prepare themselves for confident handling of audits. Four types of audit procedures are explained, suggestions are made for getting a hospital ready for an audit, and strategies are suggested for maintaining control over the audit's progress.
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods*; D005375:Financial Audit / Q000379:methods*; D005376:Financial Management; D006077:Government Agencies; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006753:Hospital Records; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary; D007182:Income; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States