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The organization analyzes bad debt to find an amount of debt that matches the money the organization has to pay.
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Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024
Rall, the spokesperson with CHA, attributes the increase in bad debt to the proliferation of high-deductible plans that leave patients underinsured.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
The utility in its rate filing is seeking to recover $156 million in bad debt and other program costs that have accumulated since the start of the program.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
Uncompensated care includes charity care, where the hospital never expected the patient to pay; bad debt, where the patient is theoretically responsible for the bill, but unlikely to ever pay; and the difference between the cost of the care and what Medicare or Medicaid reimburses.
—Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The increase in operating expenses is primarily due to additional costs incurred to operate Newswire, as well as an increase in bad debt expense and amortization expense attributed to intangible assets related to the Newswire acquisition.
—Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
Operating expenses increased primarily due to an increase in bad debt expense and amortization expense attributed to intangible assets related to the Newswire acquisition.
—Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
But a combination of bad luck, bad debt and a bad credit score priced her out of her apartment in Bellevue, another suburb of Seattle, one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.
—Rukmini Callimachi Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
These banks hold a tsunami of still unresolved bad debt and are now publicly known to be illiquid and possibly insolvent.
—Nizar Manek, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2015
Tyler Spence, The Indianapolis Star, 18 June 2024
Rall, the spokesperson with CHA, attributes the increase in bad debt to the proliferation of high-deductible plans that leave patients underinsured.
—Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2024
The utility in its rate filing is seeking to recover $156 million in bad debt and other program costs that have accumulated since the start of the program.
—Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 16 Apr. 2024
Uncompensated care includes charity care, where the hospital never expected the patient to pay; bad debt, where the patient is theoretically responsible for the bill, but unlikely to ever pay; and the difference between the cost of the care and what Medicare or Medicaid reimburses.
—Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2024
The increase in operating expenses is primarily due to additional costs incurred to operate Newswire, as well as an increase in bad debt expense and amortization expense attributed to intangible assets related to the Newswire acquisition.
—Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
Operating expenses increased primarily due to an increase in bad debt expense and amortization expense attributed to intangible assets related to the Newswire acquisition.
—Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
But a combination of bad luck, bad debt and a bad credit score priced her out of her apartment in Bellevue, another suburb of Seattle, one of the most expensive housing markets in the country.
—Rukmini Callimachi Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
These banks hold a tsunami of still unresolved bad debt and are now publicly known to be illiquid and possibly insolvent.
—Nizar Manek, Foreign Affairs, 18 Oct. 2015
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“Bad debt.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bad%20debt. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
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