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Title: Understanding IRS


1
Understanding IRSs Proposed Regulations related
to 501(r), Schedule H, Part V Reporting and
Schedule S-10 Reporting
  • Presented by

Scott Bezjak, CPAPartnerBKD, LLP
2
AGENDA
  • Overview of Section 501(r)
  • Sections 501(r)(4) 501(r)(6) Proposed
    Regulations
  • Section 501(r)(3) and IRS Notice
    2011-52-Anticipated Regulatory Provisions
  • IRS Form 990, Schedule H
  • Medicare Cost Report Worksheet S-10

3
Overview of Section 501(r)(3) 501(r)(6)
4
Background
  • 501(r) enacted March 23, 2010
  • Notice 2010-39 IRS requested comments regarding
    new 501(r) requirements (May 27, 2010)
  • Notice 2011-52 IRS addressed CHNA requirement
    (July 8, 2011)
  • Proposed Regulation on requirements described in
    501(r)(4) (r)(6) (June 22, 2012)

5
Overview of IRC Section 501(r)
  • Enacted by Patient Protection and Affordable Care
    Act of 2010 (PPACA)
  • Four new requirements for nonprofit hospitals to
    obtain and maintain 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
  • Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
  • Financial Assistance Policy
  • Limitation on Charges
  • Billing and Collection Practices

6
IRC Section 501(r)(3)
  • Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA)
  • Must be conducted once every three years for
    community served by each hospital
  • Include community input and public health
    expertise
  • Be made widely available to public
  • Hospital must adopt implementation strategy to
    meet identified needs
  • 50,000 excise tax applies for failure to meet
    assessment rules (IRC sec. 4959)
  • Tax potentially applicable annually

7
IRC Section 501(r)(4)
  • Financial Assistance Policy (FAP)
  • Eligibility criteria
  • Basis for calculating amounts charged
  • Method for applying
  • If no separate billing and collection policy
    exists, the actions the organization may take in
    the event of non-payment
  • Measures to widely publicize the policy
  • Policy relating to emergency medical care

8
IRC Section 501(r)(5)
  • 501(r)(5) Limitation on Charges
  • Limits amounts charged for emergency or other
    medically necessary care provided to individuals
    eligible for assistance under the FAP to not more
    than the amounts generally billed to individuals
    having insurance covering such care
  • Prohibits the use of gross charges

9
IRC Section 501(r)(6)
  • 501(r)(6) Billing and Collection Requirement
  • May not engage in extraordinary collection
    actions before the organization has made
    reasonable efforts to determine whether the
    individual is eligible for assistance

10
Overview of IRC Section 501(r)
Section Requirement Effective Date
501(r)(3)   Community Health Needs Assessment CHNA required once every three years and adopt an implementation strategy to meet the needs identified by the assessment. Taxable years beginning after March 23, 2012
501(r)(4) Financial Assistance Policy Each tax exempt hospital must establish, implement and make widely available written policies regarding financial assistance and emergency medical care. Taxable years beginning after March 23, 2010  
501(r)(5) Limitation on Charges Charges for emergency or other medically necessary care provided to patients eligible for financial assistance can not be more than the lowest amounts charged to insured patients. Taxable years beginning after March 23, 2010  
501(r)(6) Billing and Collections A tax exempt hospital cannot take extraordinary collection actions (lawsuits, arrests, liens or other similar actions) until it has made reasonable efforts to determine whether a patient is eligible for financial assistance. Taxable years beginning after March 23, 2010  
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Issues
  • Guidance before release of Proposed Regulations
    and Advanced Regulatory Provisions was vague
  • Requirements have been in place since March 23,
    2010
  • May rely on, but not required to comply with,
    Proposed Regulations or Anticipated Regulatory
    Provisions

12
Issues
  • Does your FAP explain the basis for amounts
    charged (i.e. discount applied against gross
    charges)?
  • Does your FAP document measures that you take to
    publicize your FAP?
  • Do you provide discounts for FAP eligible
    patients that are less than those negotiated with
    insurance companies?

13
Proposed Regulations
  • Sections 501(r)(4) 501(r)(6) Proposed
    Regulations

14
Hospital Facilities
  • Licensed, registered, or similarly recognized by
    a state as a hospital
  • May treat multiple buildings operated under a
    single state license as a single hospital
    facility
  • Facilities outside U.S. are not required to
    comply
  • Disregarded entities operating hospitals must
    comply
  • Governmental hospitals with 501(c)(3) status must
    comply

15
Financial Assistance Policy
  • Previous requirements still apply
  • May publicize a summary of FAP as certain
    information may change regularly (such as federal
    poverty references)
  • No mandate for a particular eligibility criteria
  • Must state the amounts, such as gross charges, to
    which any discount percentages will be applied

16
Eligibility Criteria and Basis Calculating
Amounts Charged
  • Must state that a FAP eligible patient will not
    be charged more than amounts generally billed
    (AGB) for emergency or other medically necessary
    care
  • Must state which of the IRS permitted methods
    used to determine AGB will be used
  • Must either state the of gross charges the
    hospital facility applies to determine AGB and
    how these AGB s were calculated or how members
    of the public may readily obtain this information
    in writing free of charge

17
Method for Applying and Actions Taken for
Nonpayment
  • Financial assistance may not be denied based on
    the omission of information not specifically
    required by the FAP or FAP application form
  • Must describe actions that may be taken in the
    event of nonpayment if no separate billing and
    collections policy exists
  • Must describe the process and time frames the
    hospital will use in taking these actions,
    including reasonable efforts to determine if the
    individual is FAP eligible
  • Must describe who has final authority for
    determining that the hospital has made reasonable
    efforts

18
Widely Publicizing
  • Four types of measures required
  • Measures taken to make paper copies of the FAP,
    the FAP application, and a plain language summary
    available (in English and language of minority
    populations comprising gt 10 of hospitals
    community)
  • Public display measures
  • Measures to inform and notify members of the
    hospitals community
  • Measures to make the FAP, application form, and a
    plain language summary available on the website

19
Establishing the FAP
  • Authorized body must adopt the policy and the
    hospital must implement in the policy
  • Authorized body includes
  • Governing body,
  • A committee of the governing body permitted under
    state law to act on behalf of the governing body,
  • Other parties authorized by the governing body of
    the hospital to act on its behalf

20
Limitations on Charges
  • Must limit the charges to FAP-eligible patients
    to not more than AGB to individuals with
    insurance covering that care and charges must be
    less than gross charges
  • Two methods for computing AGB
  • Look-back method
  • Prospective method
  • Two methods are mutually exclusive
  • Claims paid under Medicare Advantage are treated
    as claims paid by private insurance

21
Look-Back Method
  • Based on actual claims paid to the hospital by
    either Medicare fee-for-service only or Medicare
    fee-for-service together with all private health
    insurers paying claims
  • Calculated by multiplying gross charges by one or
    more AGB percentages
  • Must calculate AGB percentages no less than
    annually by dividing the sum of certain claims
    paid by the sum of associated gross charges

22
Look-Back Method
  • Must begin applying AGB percentages by the 45th
    day after the end of the 12-month period used in
    calculation
  • May calculate one average AGB percentage for all
    emergency and medically necessary care or
    multiple AGB percentages for separate categories
    of care

23
Prospective Method
  • Determine AGB by using the same billing and
    coding process the hospital would use if the
    individual were a Medicare fee-for-service
    beneficiary

24
Gross Charges
  • May use gross charges as starting point to which
    discounts are applied
  • Safe harbor provided for situations where an
    individual does not complete FAP application
    before the time of charges

25
Billing and Collection
  • Must engage in reasonable efforts to determine
    FAP eligibility before engaging in extraordinary
    collections actions (ECA)
  • ECAs include
  • Any action that requires legal or judicial
    process
  • Reporting to credit agencies
  • Sale of individuals debt to another party

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Reasonable Efforts
  • Notify the individual about the FAP
  • If an individual provides an incomplete
    application, provide them with information
    relevant to complete the application
  • Make and document determination as to whether an
    individual is FAP-eligible

27
Notification Period
  • Period in which hospital must notify an
    individual about the FAP
  • Begins on the date care is provided and ends on
    the 120th day after the hospital provides the
    first billing statement

28
Application Period
  • Must accept and process FAP applications during a
    longer period that ends on the 240th day after
    the hospital provides the individual with the
    first billing statement

29
Notification About the FAP
  • Must distribute a plain language summary of the
    FAP and offer an application before discharge
  • Must distribute a plain language summary of the
    FAP with all (and at least 3) billing statements
    during the notification period
  • Must inform the individual of the FAP in all oral
    communications during the notification period
  • Must provide at least one written notice about
    the ECAs the hospital may take if the individual
    does not submit an FAP application or pay the
    amount due by the last day of the notification
    period

30
Plain Language Summary
  • Brief description of eligibility requirements and
    assistance offered
  • Direct website address and physical location
    copies may be obtained
  • Instructions on how to obtain a free copy by mail
  • Contact information
  • Statement of availability of translations if
    applicable
  • Statement that no FAP-eligible patient will be
    charged more than AGB

31
Incomplete FAP Applications
  • If received during application period, the
    hospital must
  • Suspend ECAs when received
  • Provide written notice that describes additional
    information needed
  • Provide at least one written notice describing
    ECAs that may be initiated or resumed if the
    individual does not complete by a deadline that
    is no earlier than the later of 30 days from the
    written notice or the last day of the application
    period

32
Complete FAP Applications
  • If received during the application period, the
    hospital must
  • Provide a billing statement indicating the amount
    owed
  • Refund any excess payments made by the individual
  • Take all reasonably available measures to reverse
    any ECA

33
Section 501(r)(3) and IRS Notice
2011-52Anticipated Regulatory Provisions
34
IRS Notice 2011-52
  • IRS Notice 2011-52 Notice and Request for
    Comments Regarding the Community Health Needs
    Assessment Requirements for Tax Exempt Hospitals

35
IRS Notice 2011-52 Key Guidance
  • 12 Parts within section 3 of the Notice
  • Provides Key Guidance on the following
  • Which Hospitals are required to conduct CHNA
  • Required Documentation for CHNA
  • Level and Type of Input Required for CHNA
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Timing

36
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • Organization that operates a facility which is
    required by state to be licensed, registered or
    similarly recognized as a hospital
  • Includes disregarded entities, joint ventures,
    partnerships
  • Excludes hospital facilities located outside the
    United States
  • Hospital must meet requirements for each facility
    it operates

37
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • Treasury and IRS intend to require a hospital
    organization to document a CHNA for a hospital
    facility in a written report that includes
    descriptions of the following information
  • Community
  • Process and methods
  • Community input
  • Community needs
  • Existing health care facilities

38
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • CHNA must involve Persons Representing the Broad
    Interests of the Community with special knowledge
    of or expertise in public health
  • Health departments or other agencies, with
    current data or other information relevant to the
    health needs of the community served by the
    hospital.
  • Leaders, representatives or members of medically
    underserved, low-income and minority populations
    and populations with chronic disease needs.

39
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • When is a CHNA Considered Conducted?
  • Taxable year the written report is made widely
    available to the public
  • CHNA Must be made widely available to the Public
  • Post CHNA and findings on hospital website
  • CHNA report must be made widely available to
    the public until the date it makes a subsequent
    CHNA report widely available

40
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Written Plan that is attached to Form 990
  • A separate plan for each hospital facility
  • Adopted the date it is approved by an authorized
    governing body of the hospital organization
  • Must be adopted by the end of the SAME tax year
    in which it conducts that CHNA

41
IRS Notice 2011-52 Anticipated Regulatory
Provisions
  • CHNA must be conducted once every three years for
    community served by each hospital first must be
    completed by end of tax year beginning after
    March 23, 2012

Summary of Initial Cycle for CHNA Summary of Initial Cycle for CHNA Summary of Initial Cycle for CHNA Summary of Initial Cycle for CHNA Summary of Initial Cycle for CHNA
Year End Beginning of Fiscal Year Due Date for Initial CHNA
03/31/2012 04/01/2012 03/31/2013
06/30/2012 07/01/2012 06/30/2013
09/30/2012 10/01/2012 09/30/2013
12/31/2012 01/01/2013 12/31/2013
01/31/2013 02/01/2014 01/31/2014
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To-Do Item
  • Assess if Your Hospital is Required to Conduct a
    CHNA and Determine the Due Date of Your Initial
    CHNA
  • Hospital needs to Conduct the CHNA and Adopt
    an Implementation Strategy by the Due Date!

43
CHNA Planning ExecutionSample Time Line
44
CHNA - Common Missing ElementsObservations from
the Field
  • Implementation Strategy
  • Documentation of Processes
  • Proper Identification of Hospital Community
  • County may not be the service area
  • Community Input
  • Persons with specialized knowledge or public
    health expertise
  • Representatives or members of medically
    underserved populations/minority populations
  • List and Description of Existing Health Resources
  • Listing/Prioritization of Identified Health Needs
  • Document Process

45
  • IRS Form 990, Schedule H

46
Reporting Requirements
  • Affordable Care Act added two specific reporting
    requirements to 6033(b).
  • 6033(b)(10)(D) - hospital organization required
    to report on Form 990 amount of excise tax
    imposed under 4959
  • 6033(b)(15)(A) - hospital organization required
    to report on Form 990 a description of how it is
    addressing the needs identified in each CHNA and
    a description of any needs not being addressed
    with the reasons why needs are not being
    addressed

47
Reporting Requirements
  • Questions added to Form 990, Schedule H to
    reflect the new reporting requirements under
    6033(b)(15)(A)
  • Questions reflecting the new reporting
    requirements under 6033(b)(10)(D) will be added
    to the Form 990 in the future.
  • Responses to Schedule H, Part V, Section B
    questions are optional for taxable years
    beginning on or before March 23, 2012.

48
Reporting Requirements
  • 501(r)(3)(A)(ii) requires a hospital
    organization to adopt an implementation strategy
    for each of its hospital facilities.
  • Hospital required to attach to its Form 990 its
    most recently adopted implementation strategy for
    each of its hospital facilities.
  • If only one CHNA and one implementation strategy
    in a 3-year period, hospital may attach the same
    implementation strategy for that hospital
    facility to the Form 990 for each of those three
    years.

49
Reporting Requirements
  • 2012 Form 990 organizations with tax years
    beginning after March 23, 2012 will be required
    to attached implementation strategy to Form 990

50
To-Do Item
  • Evaluate whether your Hospitals CHNA and
    Implementation Strategy will adhere to the
    guidance provided by Notice 2011-52
  • Most Hospitals have not contemplated their
    Implementation Strategy and associated timing
    constraints of the Due Date!

51
Reporting Requirements
  • Rev. Proc. 95-48 - Relieved certain governmental
    units and affiliates of governmental units from
    the requirement to file Form 990.
  • Affordable Care Act did not change the
    requirements regarding what organizations are
    required to file Form 990

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Reporting Requirements
  • A government hospital (other than one described
    in 509(a)(3)) excused from filing Form 990 under
    Rev. Proc. 95-48 is not required to file Form
    990.
  • Relieved from the annual filing requirements
    under 6033.
  • Also relieved from any new reporting requirements
    imposed 6033, including the requirements under
    6033(b)(10)(D) and (b)(15)(A) and the
    anticipated requirement to attach one or more
    implementation strategies to a Form 990.

53
Schedule H, Part V Section B
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Schedule H, Part V Section A-Facility
Information
  • List all hospital facilities operated by the
    organization during the tax year.
  • Hospital facilities are facilities that, at any
    time during the tax year, were required to be
    licensed, registered, or similarly recognized as
    a hospital under state law.
  • A hospital facility is operated by an
    organization whether the facility is operated
    directly by the organization or indirectly
    through a disregarded entity or joint venture
    treated as a partnership.

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Schedule H, Part V Section A-Facility
Information
  • The organization must complete Section B for each
    of its hospital facilities listed in Section A.
  • Proper identification of hospital facilities is
    very important!
  • Each hospital facility identified in Section A
    must meet the requirements of 501(r).
  • Verify the hospital facility is licensed with
    State.
  • States department of health or similar state
    department responsible for licensing hospitals.

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Schedule H, Part V Section B-CHNA
  • Compliance with new rules outlined in Part V,
    Section B, Facility Policies and Practices
  • For 2010, Section B was optional
  • For 2011, Section B is required
  • Must be completed on a facility by facility basis
  • Be prepared to respond to all questions

57
To-Do Item
  • Make certain that your CHNA and Implementation
    Strategy will include the documentation required
    to complete Schedule H of the Hospitals Form 990
  • Can you sit with your CHNA document and
    Implementation Strategy and check yes to the
    questions on Schedule H?

58
  • Medicare Cost Report Worksheet S-10

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Computes difference between net revenue cost
    for
  • Medicaid
  • SCHIP
  • Other state or local government indigent programs
  • Charity
  • Bad Debt
  • Uses overall CCR (see changes to Worksheet C)
  • Now required for Critical Access Hospitals
  • Data should exclude physician and/or other
    professional services for all lines

60
S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Line 2 Report net patient service revenue for
    Medicaid inpatient outpatient covered services
  • Includes payments from Medicaid managed care
    programs
  • Include payments for any expansion SCHIP program
    which covers recipients who have been eligible
    for coverage under Medicaid
  • Disproportionate share (DSH) and supplemental
    payments can be reported here if not separately
    identifiable
  • DSH and/or supplemental payments should be
    reported net of provider taxes or assessments
  • Line 3 Answer yes if you received or expect to
    receive DSH and/or supplemental payments from
    Medicaid

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Line 4 If you answered yes to Line 3 enter yes
    if all of the DSH and/or supplemental payments
    you received from Medicaid are included in Line
    2. Otherwise answer no and complete Line 5
  • Line 5 Enter DSH and/or supplemental payments
    received or expects to receive from Medicaid not
    included on Line 2. Must be net of provider
    taxes or assessments
  • What if your provider tax has been allowable and
    is included in the cost to charge ratio from
    Worksheet C?

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Line 17 Enter the amount of all non-government
    grants, gifts, and investment income received
    that is restricted to funding uncompensated care
    or indigent care
  • Line 18 Enter all grants, appropriations or
    transfers received or expected from government
    entities for purposes related to hospital
    operations (including but not limited to funding
    uncompensated care)
  • Include 1011 funds for undocumented aliens, if
    applicable
  • Do not include funds from government entities
    designated for non-operating purposes (e.g.,
    research or capital projects)

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Charity care defined as
  • Hospital demonstrates patient unable to pay
  • Patient qualifies under hospitals charity care
    policy
  • Includes full partial charity care write-offs
  • Excludes courtesy discounts
  • Excludes discounts to uninsured who fail to
    qualify for charity
  • Unpaid amounts associated with charity care are
    not considered as an allowable Medicare bad debt
  • Line 20 is separated into two columns
  • Uninsured patients
  • Insured patients
  • Line 20 is used within E series for EHR
    computation

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Line 20 Charity Care
  • Column 1 enter full charges of patients who are
    given a full or partial charity write-off
  • Column 2 for patients covered by a government or
    private insurer enter the deductible and/or
    coinsurance payments given a charity write-off
  • Non-covered services to Medicaid eligible
    patients or other indigent care programs can be
    included in charity care if such inclusion is
    specified in the hospitals charity care policy.
  • Includes charges for days exceeding a length of
    stay requirement
  • Must answer the question on Line 24 and complete
    Line 25

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Line 22 enter partial payments received or
    expected from patients who have been approved for
    partial charity care write-offs
  • Exclude payments from payers
  • The expected payment is necessary to not double
    dip bad debt and charity

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S-10 Uncompensated Care
  • Bad Debt Line 26
  • Enter total facility charges for bad debts
    written off or expected to be written off (bad
    debt expense)
  • Exclude physician and/or other professional
    services
  • Include the sum of all Medicare allowable bad
    debts (the amount before the reduction)
  • Insured patients do not include bad debts that
    are the obligation of the insurer rather than the
    patient (e.g., denials)
  • Bad Debt Line 27
  • Enter the Medicare reimbursable bad debts (e.g.,
    WS E Part A Line 65)

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Additional To-do List
  • Read Assessing Addressing Community Health
    Needs from Catholic Health Association
  • http//www.chausa.org/Assessing_and_Addressing_Com
    munity_Health_Needs.aspx
  • Obtain and read a copies of Federal Rules and
    Regulations ( IRS Notice 2011-52)
  • Consider Related Compliance, Operational and
    Public Relations Issues
  • Any multi-disciplinary approach must include
    Finance personnel
  • Make Certain that your Hospital and is compliant
    with 501(r)!

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Scott Bezjak, CPA
Senior Manager
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