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Health Management and Financial Statements
Describe the four basic financial statements. What are some ways in which accounting for health care organizations (HCOs), especially not-for-profit (NFP) ones, tends to differ from accounting in other industries?
According to the textbook Essentials of Health Care Finance, "the primary outputs of financial accounting are four financial statements that detail the organization's current financial position and how the organization reached that position over some period of time (usually 1 year)" (Cleverley, Song & Cleverley, 2012). These four financial statements are 1.) Balance Sheet, 2.) Statement of Operations (or income statement or statement of revenues and expenses), 3.) Statement of Cash Flows, and 4.) Statement of Changes in Net Assets (or statement of changes in net assets). Health care organizations (HCOs) utilize each of these four financial statements under guidelines known as the Generally Accepted Accounting...
The fundamental difference between HCOs and typical businesses engaged in commercial activity is that most businesses have just a single type of payment -- billed charges -- while "in contrast, the typical healthcare firm may have several hundred different contractual relationships with payers, which specify different rates of payment for an identical basket of services" (Cleverley, Song & Cleverley, 2012). When the convoluted nature of the nation's current health insurance system is taken into account, which allows hospitals…
References
Cleverley, W., Song, P., & Cleverley, J. (2012). Essentials of health care finance. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
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