charity-care

Financial aid from the state to hospitals for treating uninsured patients would be slashed to facilities large and small, urban and suburban, under a proposed charity-care formula announced Monday by state officials.

Charity-care shocker: Solaris shifting loss to Muhlenberg? Dan 2008

Eighteen hospitals may receive more money, based on the increasing number of charity-care patients they are treating.

Charity-care shocker: Solaris shifting loss to Muhlenberg? Dan 2008

If you have a regular doctor you'd like to keep seeing but fear you can't pay full price because of lost coverage, give the doctor a chance to work out a charity-care arrangement, payment plan or possible treatment changes to lower costs, says Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, who practices in Laurinburg, N.C. Most doctors will try to work with patients to assure their continuity of care, she says.

Yes, the Uninsured Can Get Care Kristen Gerencher 2010

The New Jersey Hospital Association applied the formula using 2006 claims and concluded that 26 hospitals that share $46 million in charity-care aid today would lose all their aid, including Jersey Shore University Medical Center ($5.4 million), JFK Medical Center ($4 million), Community Medical Center ($3.7 million) and St. Peter's University Hospital ($3 million).

Charity-care shocker: Solaris shifting loss to Muhlenberg? Dan 2008

The New Jersey Hospital Association applied the formula using 2006 claims and concluded that 26 hospitals that share $46 million in charity-care aid today would lose all their aid, including Jersey Shore University Medical Center ($5.4 million), JFK Medical Center ($4 million), Community Medical Center ($3.7 million) and St. Peter's University Hospital ($3 million).

Charity-care shocker: Solaris shifting loss to Muhlenberg? Dan 2008

If you have a regular doctor you'd like to keep seeing but fear you can't pay full price because of lost coverage, give the doctor a chance to work out a charity-care arrangement, payment plan or possible treatment changes to lower costs, says Lori Heim, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, who practices in Laurinburg, N.C. Most doctors will try to work with patients to assure their continuity of care, she says.

Yes, the Uninsured Can Get Care Kristen Gerencher 2010

But Provena, the court found, believed that its charity-care program should be the payer of last resort and used collections agencies and lawsuits to get paid.

Illinois High Court: Nonprofit Hospital Can Be Taxed Suzanne Sataline 2010

But Provena, the court found, believed that its charity-care program should be the payer of last resort and used collections agencies and lawsuits to get paid.

Illinois High Court: Nonprofit Hospital Can Be Taxed Suzanne Sataline 2010

But Provena, the court found, believed that its charity-care program should be the payer of last resort and used collections agencies and lawsuits to get paid.

Illinois High Court: Nonprofit Hospital Can Be Taxed Suzanne Sataline 2010

Health and Senior Services Commissioner Heather Howard called the proposal "the start of a conversation" about how to reduce charity-care aid by $108 million, among the spending cuts in Gov.

Charity-care shocker: Solaris shifting loss to Muhlenberg? Dan 2008