Note 1 - Basis of Presentation

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2016

Notes to Financial Statements

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements Disclosure [Text Block]

1. Basis of Presentation

HMS Holdings Corp, (the “Company” or “HMS”) provides coordination of benefits services to government and private healthcare payers and sponsors to ensure that the responsible party pays healthcare claims. Additionally, the Company’s payment integrity services ensure that healthcare claims billed are accurate and appropriate. Together these various services help customers recover amounts from liable third parties; prevent future improper payments; reduce fraud, waste and abuse; and ensure regulatory compliance.

The consolidated financial statements and notes herein are unaudited. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (“U.S. GAAP”) for complete financial statements. These statements include all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) that management considers necessary to present a fair statement of the Company’s results of operations, financial position and cash flows. The results reported in these consolidated financial statements should not be regarded as necessarily indicative of results that may be expected for the entire year. It is suggested that these consolidated financial statements be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2015 which were filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on February 29, 2016 as part of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 (“2015 Form 10-K”).

The preparation of the Company’s unaudited consolidated financial statements requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, primarily accounts receivable, intangible assets, accrued expenses, estimated allowance for appeals, estimated liability for appeals, the disclosure of contingent liabilities at the date of the unaudited consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting periods. The Company’s actual results could differ from those estimates.

These unaudited consolidated financial statements include HMS accounts and transactions and those of the Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Certain reclassifications were made to prior period amounts to conform to the current period presentation.

HMS is managed and operated as one business, with a single management team that reports to the Chief Executive Officer. HMS does not operate separate lines of business with respect to any of the Company’s product lines.