title: Medicare bad debts are you losing money?
abstract: Providers should adopt strategies to make sure that both their claimed and not yet claimed Medicare bad debts will be reimbursed. For periods going forward, providers that are not protected by the bad debt moratorium should make sure they have a bad debt policy in place that complies with CMS's current policies.
authors.affiliation: Duane Morris LLP, Miami, Florida, USA. jerde@duanemorris.com
authors.forename: Joanne B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Erde
mesh_terms: D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000191:economics; D006278:Medicare; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D014481:United States