Note 5 - Accounts Receivable

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

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, 2020

and

December 31, 2019:

	2020			2019
Retail customers	$	20,085		$	22,101
Wholesale carriers		8,257			13,157
Other		3,681			3,723
		32,023			38,981
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts		(4,285	)		(4,627	)
Accounts receivable, net	$	27,738		$	34,354

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

three

-month period ended

March 31, 2020,

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

	2020
Balance at January 1	$	4,627
Provision for uncollectible accounts		(229	)
Charged to other accounts		-
Deductions		(113	)
Asset at March 31	$	4,285

As of

March 31, 2020,

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).

For Funding Year

2019

(

July 1, 2019

through

June 30, 2020),

the FCC had approved the Company’s cost-based rural rates for the majority of its customers and USAC began issuing funding commitment letters in

February 2020.

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

$4,450

and

$6,827

at

March 31, 2020

and

December 31, 2019,

respectively. Rural health care accounts are a component of the Retail Customers category in the above table.