Cost Reports Sellers, at their expense, shall prepare and timely file all terminating and other cost reports required or permitted by law to be filed under the Medicare and Medicaid or other third party payor programs and the State Health Agency for periods ending on or prior to the Effective Time, or as a result of the consummation of the transactions described herein (“Seller Cost Reports”). Upon the reasonable request of Sellers, Buyers shall reasonably cooperate with Sellers in providing certain information needed by Sellers when preparing any Seller Cost Reports, including, but not limited to, completion of Sellers’ standard hospital data collection template, invoice and general ledger analysis, and other documentation historically prepared by the Hospital for cost reporting purposes. If requested by Sellers, the applicable Buyer shall include the applicable Seller’s Medicare bad debts that are returned from collection agencies subsequent to the Closing Date on the applicable Buyer’s cost report for the respective period to which the Medicare bad debt relates. Sellers shall provide detailed supporting information, as required by Medicare regulations, for the Medicare bad debt account amounts to be included on the applicable Buyer’s Medicare cost report. The applicable Buyer shall forward to Sellers any and all correspondence relating to the Seller Cost Reports within five (5) business days after receipt by such Buyer. The applicable Buyer shall remit any receipts of funds relating to the Seller Cost Reports or to Sellers’ Medicare bad debts included on a Buyer’s cost report promptly after receipt by such Buyer and shall forward to Sellers any demand for payments within three (3) business days after receipt by such Buyer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, Sellers shall retain all rights to the Seller Cost Reports including any amounts receivable or payable in respect of such reports or reserves relating to such reports and all liabilities relating thereto. Such rights shall include the right to appeal any Medicare or Medicaid determinations relating to the Seller Cost Reports. Sellers shall retain the originals of the Seller Cost Reports, correspondence, work papers and other documents relating to the Seller Cost Reports. Sellers will furnish copies of such cost reports correspondence, work papers, and other documents to any Buyer upon request.
COST REPORT 27 A. CONTRACTOR shall submit separate individual and/or consolidated Cost Reports for Period 28 One, Period Two, and Period Three, or for a portion thereof, to COUNTY no later than sixty (60) 29 calendar days following the period for which they are prepared or termination of this Agreement. 30 CONTRACTOR shall prepare the individual and/or consolidated Cost Report in accordance with all 31 applicable federal, state and COUNTY requirements, GAAP and the Special Provisions Paragraph of 32 this Agreement. CONTRACTOR shall allocate direct and indirect costs to and between programs, cost 33 centers, services, and funding sources in accordance with such requirements and consistent with prudent 34 business practice, which costs and allocations shall be supported by source documentation maintained 35 by CONTRACTOR, and available at any time to ADMINISTRATOR upon reasonable notice. In the 36 event CONTRACTOR has multiple Agreements for mental health services that are administered by 37 HCA, consolidation of the individual Cost Reports into a single consolidated Cost Report may be 1 required, as stipulated by ADMINISTRATOR. CONTRACTOR shall submit a consolidated Cost 2 Report to COUNTY no later than five (5) business days following approval by ADMINSTRATOR of 3 all individual Cost Reports to be incorporated into a consolidated Cost Report.
4 1. If CONTRACTOR fails to submit an accurate and complete individual and/or consolidated 5 Cost Report within the time period specified above, ADMINISTRATOR shall have sole discretion to 6 impose one or both of the following:
7 a. CONTRACTOR may be assessed a late penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each 8 business day after the above specified due date that the accurate and complete individual and/or 9 consolidated Cost Report is not submitted. Imposition of the late penalty shall be at the sole discretion 10 of the ADMINISTRATOR. The late penalty shall be assessed separately on each outstanding individual 11 and/or consolidated Cost Report due COUNTY by CONTRACTOR.
12 b. ADMINISTRATOR may withhold or delay any or all payments due CONTRACTOR 13 pursuant to any or all agreements between COUNTY and CONTRACTOR until such time that the 14 accurate and complete individual and/or consolidated Cost Report is delivered to ADMINISTRATOR.
15 2. CONTRACTOR may request, in advance and in writing, an extension of the due date of the 16 individual and/or consolidated Cost Report setting forth good cause for justification of the request.
Project Reports The Recipient shall monitor and evaluate the progress of the Project and prepare Project Reports in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.08 of the General Conditions and on the basis of the indicators agreed with the Association. Each Project Report shall cover the period of one calendar semester, and shall be furnished to the Association not later than one month after the end of the period covered by such report.
Final Project Report The Grantee must submit Exhibit F, Final Project Report Form, prior to requesting final payment. The Final Project Report may be submitted in lieu of the final quarterly status report, only in instances where the next quarterly report falls after the project’s completion date.