A Comparative Study of Financial Data Sources for Critical Access Hospitals: Audited Financial Statements, the Medicare Cost Report, and the Internal Revenue Service Form 990

Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 416-424

  Ozmeral, Alisha Bhadelia ^a   Reiter, Kristin L ^a,b   Holmes, George M ^a,b   Pink, George H ^a,b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical access hospitals; Financial performance; Health services research; Medicare cost report; Rural

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TAX; UNITED STATES;

ACCOUNTING; CAPITAL FINANCING; DATA COLLECTION; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FINANCIAL AUDIT; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; MEDICARE; TAXES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867995524     PISSN: 0890765X     EISSN: 17480361     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2012.00416.x     Document Type: Article

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