Indigent Care news from FierceHealthcare
NewsState uses $8M indigent-care funds to settle alleged improper deals
Instead of using federal matching funds for indigent care, New Mexico will use $8 million to settle claims that nine hospitals made improper deals with county governments, The New Mexican reported. Read more...
South Carolina, Florida decry budget cuts
As state budgets await signatures in the coming weeks, healthcare providers in at least two states are hunkering down to deal more severe cuts to Medicaid and other programs aimed at low-income Read more...
Revolution now!...for hospital ratings
Yesterday, the Leapfrog Group announced its customary list of top hospitals, all of which, no doubt, are fine institutions. That's, uh, really exciting...sort of. After all, other top hospital lists, Read more...
Emergency department doctors sue California
Frustrated by low reimbursement--and the threat of further cuts--a group of emergency department doctors have filed a class-action lawsuit against the state of California. The suit contends that Read more...
TX legislators propose standard for valuing hospital charity care
A work group appointed by Texas legislators has proposed a standard for calculating the cost of charity care provided by the state's non-profit hospitals, with the idea of determining the actual Read more...
Case study: Detroit med school carries $50M/year in uncompensated care
If you're an urban medical school, you expect to care for a high volume of the city's struggling poor and uninsured patients. That's particularly true in Detroit, where Wayne State University cares Read more...
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