Doctors providing less charity care

The Center for Studying Health System Change released a new report that argues doctors are providing less charity care than they have in the past. A decade ago, about three quarters of doctors offered charity care to their patients. Today the number has fallen to about two thirds.

"One of the striking things about this is that the decrease is pretty much across the board," said lead author Peter Cunningham. "Regardless of specialty, type of practice, size of practice or part of the country." CSHC notes the implications for uninsured patients are not encouraging.

- see this Washington Post article

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