The Community Health Needs Assessment is a provision of the Affordable Care Act. It is a requirement for all non-profit, non-governmental hospitals that file IRS Form 990; it is a public document that must be posted on a hospital’s website.
The CHNA requirements become effective starting with the first tax year beginning after March 23, 2012, and must be filed every three years.
Specific community healthcare needs and how the hospital is meeting them must be identified by the CHNA. The hospital must also develop action plans to meet the needs of the community, monitor them and report progress on their implementation.
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Now, Palmetto is requiring providers to reduce their bad debts by the actual SOC. If any SOC was actually collected on a claim, then the corresponding Medicare bad debt would be reduced by that amount. If any amount of SOC was uncollectible, then to claim the bad debt for that portion, the provider would have to prove that they made reasonable collection efforts, a difficult process in many cases, and doubly so when trying to collect from Medi-Cal beneficiaries.