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Article: NOT ON THE SAME @@Page: CONSUMERS UNION, CALIF. ATTORNEY GENERAL SPLIT ON METHODOLOGY IN CHARITY-CARE REPORT.
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- June 21, 1999
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In a rare break between two organizations typically allied on preserving community health benefits, the California attorney general's office has challenged the methodology of a recent Consumers Union report about hospital charity care.
The 72-page report released by Consumers Union in April, ``White Knights or Trojan Horses?'' concluded that charity care declined dramatically at many previously not-for-profit hospitals in California after they were purchased by for-profit operators (May 10, p. 4).
But Deputy Attorney General H. Chester Horn Jr., who oversees all purchases in the state of not-for-profit hospitals by for-profit hospitals, told the ...