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hello this is dr eric bricker and thank you for watching a healthcare z today's topic is the medicare cost report now this is an incredibly dry subject so hang in there please stick with me because it's very important if we work in health care then we need to understand the medicare cost report even if you work in commercial insurance and employers you still need to understand the medicare cost report so hospitals skilled nursing facilities other health care facilities are required to file a medicare cost report annually with cms now interestingly doctors are not required to file a medicare cost report so it's just on the facility side it's not for the professionals fee side now there's a number of reasons why the medicare cost report is filed one of which is to determine if medicare over or underpaid the hospital and it's also used in broader policy decisions broader policy decisions as well now it's complicated as one could imagine it involves a number of different worksheets they ha