ARTICLE;
COMMUNITY CARE;
COMPARATIVE STUDY;
COST;
EPIDEMIOLOGY;
FORECASTING;
HEALTH CARE DELIVERY;
HEALTH ECONOMICS;
HEALTH SERVICE;
HUMAN;
SOCIOECONOMICS;
STATISTICS;
UNITED STATES;
CALIFORNIA;
CONNECTICUT;
COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS;
ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL;
FLORIDA;
FORECASTING;
HEALTH CARE SURVEYS;
HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY;
HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND;
HUMANS;
MARYLAND;
MEDICAL INDIGENCY;
NEW JERSEY;
NEW YORK;
UNCOMPENSATED CARE;
WASHINGTON;
Uncompensated care is defined in this study as in others as the sum of charity care and bad debt. In principle, charity care better reflects the inability to pay that is a central policy concern. However, hospitals' classification of charity care and bad debt is inconsistent, and the two categories are regularly combined in analysis. We follow that convention here.
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Uncompensated Hospital Care: Will It Be There if We Need It?
11 September
J. Weissman, "Uncompensated Hospital Care: Will It Be There If We Need It?" Journal of the American Medical Association (11 September 1996): 823-828.
Hospital-specific data were not available for all years for Connecticut, and our analysis of this state is limited to aggregate data.
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At the hospital level, it is irrelevant whether costs or charges are used, as the same multiplier would be applied to uncompensated care charges and total charges to reduce them to costs. Subsidies from local governments were not applied against the uncompensated care because the goal of the analysis was to examine changes in hospitals' levels of uncompensated care, not changes in state or local funding levels.
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In all counties except the New York City counties and Los Angeles County, a single primary safety-net provider was designated. In the four New York City counties with five or more hospitals and in Los Angeles County, data on all public hospitals were pooled. Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC) hospitals were combined for analysis. Other methodological details are available from the authors. Contact W. David Helms, Alpha Center, Suite 1100, 1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036.
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Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women and Infants: Easing Hospitals' Uncompensated Care Burdens?
Fall
D.J. Lipson, S.A. Norton, and M. Moon, "Medicaid Expansions for Pregnant Women and Infants: Easing Hospitals' Uncompensated Care Burdens?" Inquiry (Fall 1995): 332-344.
Uncompensated Care: Hospitals' Responses to Fiscal Pressures
Spring
J. Mann et al., "Uncompensated Care: Hospitals' Responses to Fiscal Pressures," Health Affairs (Spring 1995): 263-270; and Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, Medicare and the American Health Care System, Report to Congress (Washington: ProPAC, June 1996), 48-49.
J. Mann et al., "Uncompensated Care: Hospitals' Responses to Fiscal Pressures," Health Affairs (Spring 1995): 263-270; and Prospective Payment Assessment Commission, Medicare and the American Health Care System, Report to Congress (Washington: ProPAC, June 1996), 48-49.
Menlo Park, Calif.: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, September
D.J. Lipson, Keeping the Promise? Achieving Universal Health Coverage in Six States (Menlo Park, Calif.: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, September 1994).
