of our competitors are significantly larger and have greater financial resources and lower cost of capital than we have available to us. The final rule also addresses implementation of the Patient-Driven Payment Model case mix classification system, changes to the group therapy definition in the skilled nursing facility setting, and various skilled nursing facility Value-Based Purchasing (“VBP”) Program and quality reporting program policies. The affiliated entities named in the lawsuit operate properties in Kentucky and New Mexico. In addition, CMS has adopted regulations that impose new standards for long-term care facilities participating in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s controls related to the monitoring for indicators of impairment and, as indicators are present, management’s determination of future cash flows and probability assessment. We are a self-administered health care real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that invests primarily in seniors housing and health care properties through sale-leaseback transactions, mortgage financing, joint ventures and structured finance solutions including mezzanine lending. We periodically but not less than quarterly evaluate our real estate investments and other assets for impairment indicators.
Medicare and Medicaid facilities are regularly inspected to determine compliance, and may be excluded from the programs—in some cases without a prior hearing—for failure to meet program requirements. This incremental funding bears interest at We have concluded that the JV is a VIE in accordance with GAAP. See Based on the information available to us regarding alternatives and courses of action as of December 31, 2019, we performed a recoverability test on the carrying amount of our preferred equity investment and determined that a portion of our preferred equity investment is not recoverable. Costs incurred after a project is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, or after development activities have ceased, are expensed as incurred. Additionally, we record an estimated allowance for doubtful accounts, as described below. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased and are stated at cost which approximates market.Acquire property insurance, subject to certain criteria;Continue paying rent in the event of any property damage or destruction; andReturn the leased property back to us at the end of the lease term, in the same condition originally received. These changes may have a dramatic effect on the definition of permissible or impermissible activities, the relative costs associated with doing business and the amount of reimbursement by both government and other third-party payors. In addition, the presence of such substances, or the failure to properly dispose of or remediate such substances, may adversely affect the owner’s ability to sell or rent such property or to borrow using such property as collateral which, in turn, would reduce our revenues.Although the mortgage loans that we provide and leases covering our properties require the borrower and the lessee to indemnify us for certain environmental liabilities, the scope of such obligations may be limited and we cannot assure that any such borrower or lessee would be able to fulfill its indemnification obligations.It is our current policy, and we intend to continue this policy, that all borrowers of funds from us and lessees of any of our properties secure adequate comprehensive property and general and professional liability insurance that covers us as well as the borrower and/or lessee.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, we declared and paid $90.9 million of cash dividends. Unless we are entitled to relief under statutory provisions, we would be disqualified from treatment as a REIT for the four taxable years following the year during which we lost qualification. We consolidate a VIE if we have both power and benefits - that is (i) we have the power to direct the activities of a VIE that most significantly impact the VIE's economic performance (power), and (ii) we have the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE, or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that potentially could be significant to the VIE (benefits). 10-k: ltc properties inc by published: feb 22, 2016 8:13 a.m. et. Because we qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, we are generally not subject to Federal income taxation.
We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of the Company’s controls related to the monitoring for indicators of impairment and, as indicators are present, management’s determination of future cash flows and probability assessment. We are a self-administered health care real estate investment trust (“REIT”) that invests primarily in seniors housing and health care properties through sale-leaseback transactions, mortgage financing, joint ventures and structured finance solutions including mezzanine lending. We periodically but not less than quarterly evaluate our real estate investments and other assets for impairment indicators.
Medicare and Medicaid facilities are regularly inspected to determine compliance, and may be excluded from the programs—in some cases without a prior hearing—for failure to meet program requirements. This incremental funding bears interest at We have concluded that the JV is a VIE in accordance with GAAP. See Based on the information available to us regarding alternatives and courses of action as of December 31, 2019, we performed a recoverability test on the carrying amount of our preferred equity investment and determined that a portion of our preferred equity investment is not recoverable. Costs incurred after a project is substantially complete and ready for its intended use, or after development activities have ceased, are expensed as incurred. Additionally, we record an estimated allowance for doubtful accounts, as described below. Cash equivalents consist of highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased and are stated at cost which approximates market.Acquire property insurance, subject to certain criteria;Continue paying rent in the event of any property damage or destruction; andReturn the leased property back to us at the end of the lease term, in the same condition originally received. These changes may have a dramatic effect on the definition of permissible or impermissible activities, the relative costs associated with doing business and the amount of reimbursement by both government and other third-party payors. In addition, the presence of such substances, or the failure to properly dispose of or remediate such substances, may adversely affect the owner’s ability to sell or rent such property or to borrow using such property as collateral which, in turn, would reduce our revenues.Although the mortgage loans that we provide and leases covering our properties require the borrower and the lessee to indemnify us for certain environmental liabilities, the scope of such obligations may be limited and we cannot assure that any such borrower or lessee would be able to fulfill its indemnification obligations.It is our current policy, and we intend to continue this policy, that all borrowers of funds from us and lessees of any of our properties secure adequate comprehensive property and general and professional liability insurance that covers us as well as the borrower and/or lessee.
During the year ended December 31, 2019, we declared and paid $90.9 million of cash dividends. Unless we are entitled to relief under statutory provisions, we would be disqualified from treatment as a REIT for the four taxable years following the year during which we lost qualification. We consolidate a VIE if we have both power and benefits - that is (i) we have the power to direct the activities of a VIE that most significantly impact the VIE's economic performance (power), and (ii) we have the obligation to absorb losses of the VIE that could potentially be significant to the VIE, or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that potentially could be significant to the VIE (benefits). 10-k: ltc properties inc by published: feb 22, 2016 8:13 a.m. et. Because we qualify as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, we are generally not subject to Federal income taxation.