Reporting IDS home office costs for Medicare reimbursement
Jones, F.H.; Leone, P.R.; Namenson, S.L.
Healthcare Financial Management Journal of the Healthcare Financial Management Association 50(1): 36-38
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0735-0732 PMID: 10154094 Document Number: 462780
Under Medicare, providers that are part of a chain can be reimbursed for an allocable portion of allowable home office costs. Before a provider can be reimbursed for these costs, however, a home office cost statement must be submitted to the providers' fiscal intermediary. The statement provides a means of allocating certain home office costs to the provider components of a system so that providers can be reimbursed directly for these costs. The home office cost statement also offers a useful financial overview of the home office's operations in relation to the system's overall operations.