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bad debt

Any bill submitted for payment by a third-party payer or patient which is not paid in full, and unlikely to be paid for various reasons

bad debt

Medical practice Any bill submitted for payment by a third-party payer or Pt, which is not paid in full

bad debt

(bad det)

Unrecoverable debt.

bad debt

a professional fee that is owed but is not recoverable by the normal procedure of submitting three accounts at one month intervals and rendered from the veterinarian's office. A bad debt must be written off as a loss or placed in the hands of a professional debt collector or a solicitor to collect. If bad debts exceed 2% of the gross income the management of the practice should be investigated.

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All taxpayers, except for certain financial institutions, use the specific charge-off method to deduct business bad debts as they become partially or totally worthless.

Deducting business bad debts

NBE applies various techniques to reduce the bad debts portfolio including; debt rescheduling, increasing the bank's stake in defaulting companies' capital and floating defaulting clients," Abou El-Fotouh said.

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It comes a day after Lloyds TSB said the value of money set aside for their bad debts had risen by a fifth to pounds 800million.

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Bad debt provision by Newcastle City Council includes pounds 5m for unpaid council tax bills and pounds 4m for council house rents.

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Japan's economy has been ailing for more than a decade, and the conventional wisdom is that the world's second largest economy won't improve until Tokyo gives top priority to dealing with the mountains of bad debt held by Japanese banks.

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Everyone knows that the bad debts of Japanese banks are huge.

The wrong problem: Tokyo strategists think Japan's solution is to look to the U.S. 1980's example--eliminating bad bank debt. They're misreading history

The fourth work group examined the treatment of bad debts, rounding, and sourcing.

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The Reserve Bank now says that banks with a "reasonable level" of bad debts would be allowed.

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Either way (depending upon your specific credit policy and procedure) the next step would suggest that the account balance be written off to bad debts and life goes on.