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Illustrative Examples Accounting For Health Care Providers-Hospitals
Illustrative Examples Accounting For Health Care Providers-Hospitals
A hospital has three revenue-controlling accounts: Patient Service Revenues, Other Operating Revenues, and Non-
operating Revenues.
1. State in general terms the type of revenues found in each controlling account.
2. Indicate into which of the three controlling accounts each of the following would be placed by using the
symbols PS for Patient Service Revenues, OO for Other Operating Revenues, N for Non-operating Revenues,
and N/A if not a revenue item:
a. Tuition for entry to the nursing school. __________________
b. An unrestricted gift of cash. __________________
c. General nursing fees charged to patients. __________________
d. Charges for physicians’ care. __________________
Example 3 – Not-for-Profit Organization: Hospital/Health Care, Journal Entries, Revenue and Cash Flow
The following transactions (a-e) took place in Brook Private Hospital during the year ending December 31,20x1:
a. Gross revenues of P8,500,000 were earned for service to Medicare patients.
b. Expected contractual adjustments with Medicare, a third-party payor, are P3,700,000; and allowance for
contractual adjustments account is used by Brook.
c. Medicare cleared charges of P8,500,000 with payments of P4,460,000 and total contractual allowances of
P4,040,000 (P3,700,000 + P340,000).
d. Interim payments received from Medicare amounted to P250,000.
e. The hospital made a lump-sum payment back to Medicare of P90,000.
Required:
1. Record the transactions in the general journal.
2. Calculate the amount of net patient service revenues.
3. What is the net cash flow from transactions with Medicare?
4. What adjustments must be made at year-end to settle up with Medicare and properly report the net patient
service revenues after this settlement?
Example 4– Not-for-Profit Organization: Hospital/Health Care: Statement of Activities.
Pure Air Rehabilitation Hospital has the following balances that are extracted from its December 31, 20x9, trial
balance: