Protecting the hospital safety net

Inquiry

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-16

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COMMUNITY; ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MEDICAID; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PHYSICIAN; REVIEW; SAFETY;

EID: 66749190208     PISSN: 00469580     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5034/inquiryjrnl_46.01.7     Document Type: Review

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1. 1 A January 2007 report, ''Serving the Uninsured: Safety-Net Hospitals, 2003,'' published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, defined these hospitals as the 10% of facilities that had between 9% and 50% of stays uninsured. It also identified another 20% as ''secondary safety-net hospitals'' with between 5% and 9% of stays uninsured. The top 10% represented almost one-third of all uninsured stays. About 56% of these hospitals were urban, 66% were in the South, 20% were teaching hospitals, over 50% had fewer than 100 beds, 45% were private nonprofit, 43% were public, and 12% were for-profit. They also had substantially more Medicaid patients and fewer privately insured and Medicare patients. About one-third experienced negative total income margins. 2 Almanac of Hospital Financial and Operating Indicators, 2008, Ingenix, pp. 3-6.