Note 5 - Accounts Receivable

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

Notes to Financial Statements

Loans, Notes, Trade and Other Receivables Disclosure [Text Block]

5.

     ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE

Accounts receivable, net, consists of the following at

March 31, 2019

and

December 31, 2018:

	2019			2018
Retail customers	$	19,537		$	21,732
Wholesale carriers		6,145			9,315
Other		4,152			4,361
		29,834			35,408
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts		(4,175	)		(3,936	)
Accounts receivable, net	$	25,659		$	31,472

The following table presents the activity in the allowance for doubtful accounts for the

three

-month period ended

March 31, 2019,

which is associated entirely with the Company’s contracts with customers:

	2019
Balance at January 1	$	3,936
Provision for uncollectible accounts		(697	)
Charged to other accounts		1,252
Deductions		(316	)
Asset at December 31	$	4,175

As of

March 31, 2019,

USAC had issued funding commitment letters for all of the Company’s rural health care customer applications for Funding Year

2018

(

July 1, 2018

through

June 30, 2019).

Accounts receivable, net, associated with rural health care customers was

$5,198

and

$8,122

at

March 31, 2019

and

December 31, 2018,

respectively. Rural health care accounts are a component of the retail customers category in the above table.