N.M. Admin. Code § 8.313.3.7 - DEFINITIONS
A.
Accrual
basis of accounting: Under the accrual basis of accounting, revenue is
recorded in the period when it is earned, regardless of when it is collected.
The expenditures for expense and asset items are recorded in the period in
which they are incurred, regardless of when they are paid.
B.
Cash basis of accounting:
Under the cash basis of accounting, revenues are recognized only when cash is
received and expenditures for expense and asset items are not recorded until
cash is disbursed for them.
C.
Governmental institution: A provider of services owned and
operated by a federal, state or local governmental agency.
D.
Allocable costs: An item or
group of items of cost chargeable to one or more objects, processes, or
operations in accordance with cost responsibilities, benefits received, or
other identifiable measure of application or consumption.
E.
Applicable credits: Those
receipts or types of transactions which offset or reduce expense items that are
allocable to cost centers as direct or indirect costs. Typical examples of such
transactions are: purchase discounts, rebates, or allowances; recoveries or
indemnities on losses; sales of scrap or incidental services; adjustments of
over-payments or erroneous charges; and other income items which serve to
reduce costs. In some instances, the amounts received from the federal
government to finance hospital activities or service operations should be
treated as applicable credits.
F.
Charges: The regular rates established by the provider for
services rendered to both medicaid recipients and to other paying patients
whether inpatient or outpatient. The rate billed to the HCA shall be the usual
and customary rate charged to all patients.
G.
Cost finding: A determination
of the cost of services by the use of informal procedures, i.e., without
employing the regular processes of cost accounting on a continuous or formal
basis. It is the determination of the cost of an operation by the allocation of
direct costs and the proration of indirect costs.
H.
Cost center: A division,
department, or subdivision thereof, a group of services or employees or both,
or any other unit or type of activity into which functions of an institution
are divided for purposes of cost assignment and allocations.
I.
General service cost centers:
Those cost centers which are operated for the benefit of other general service
areas as well as special or patient care departments. Examples of these are:
housekeeping, laundry, dietary, operation of plant, maintenance of plant, etc.
Costs incurred for these cost center are allocated to other cost centers on the
basis of services rendered.
J.
Special service cost centers: Commonly referred to as ancillary
cost center. Such centers usually provide direct identifiable services to
individual patients, and include departments such as the physical therapy and
supply departments.
K.
Inpatient cost centers: Cost centers established to accumulate
costs applicable to providing routine and ancillary services to inpatients for
the purposes of cost assignment and allocation.
L.
Provider: The entity
responsible for the provision of services. The provider must have entered into
a valid agreement with the medicaid program for the provision of such
services.
M.
Facility:
The actual physical structure in which services are provided.
N.
Owner: The entity holding
legal title to the facility.
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