Article: CHARITY CARE MAY INCLUDE CHILDREN'S HEALTH INSURANCE

Article: CHARITY CARE, CHAPTER 89
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 5, 1996 ;     475 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-05-1996 CHARITY CARE, CHAPTER 89 -- THE BLEAK OUTLOOK GETS...SO maybe the Assembly will vote on a charity care bill this week. And if it passes, maybe...Nothing is certain, however, and the charity care impasse that has dragged on for months...this year. ...

Article: Charity Care on the Rise as Uninsured Patients Flood Hospitals.
PR Newswire;  May 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Providing More Charity Care Than Is Reported...higher levels of charity care and bad debt...true value of charity care is unknown because...subsequent loss of health insurance. In addition...to apply for health insurance because of ...

Article: FACING CHARITY CARE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  November 16, 1997 ;     608 words ......its use for charity care. Two years ago...that studied charity care are not encouraging...who provide health insurance to their workers...people, lack health insurance, and that number...tax to pay for charity care. A recent poll...beverages to pay for ...

Article: Proportion of Doctors Giving Charity Care Declines; Busy Schedules, Lower Reimbursements and High Medical-School Debt Cited as Factors
The Washington Post;  March 23, 2006 ;     700+ words ......physicians providing charity care has steadily declined...Americans without health insurance has risen significantly...J. Cunningham. Charity care declined regardless...people without health insurance had a regular...state, "volunteer charity care is ...

Article: CHARITY CARE PAYS BILL; Hospitals struggle as more working people can't afford health insurance.(Business)(Correction notice)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  November 26, 2006 ;     700+ words ......never heard of: charity care. It's a program...the state's health insurance program for the...In some cases, charity care has more than...have access to health insurance - or if they do...thing I had was charity care, Riley said. I...everyone in the ...

Article: Revamping charity care strategies helps manage impact of uninsured population
Managed Healthcare Executive;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......transparency maximizes charity care, minimizes bad...provision of charity care and front-page...Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the...care, including charity care, has increased...America (HCA) and Health Management Associates...PricewaterhouseCoopers' ...

Article: Charity care funding formula being sought
New Jersey Business;  November 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......his 36-member Charity Care Advisory Task...don't provide health insurance; a tax on hospitals...and a tax on health insurance company profits...cost of the charity care program is approximately...Alliance (urban health facilities...method of funding ...

Article: Charity-care concerns climb
Journal of Business;  May 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......care at all." Charity care is the term hospitals...who lack the health insurance, government subsidies...would make those charity-care costs "spike...state-subsidized basic health insurance by 32,000 and...low-income people from health insurance and ...

Article: FUNDING CHARITY CARE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 23, 1997 ;     241 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-23-1997 FUNDING CHARITY CARE Date: 12-23-1997, Tuesday Section: OPINION...finally come up with a longterm way to pay for charity care, the state program that pays hospitals to...Last week, lawmakers approved a package of charity care bills that also ...

Article: ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ROBERTS CHARITY CARE ANTI-FRAUD ACT ADVANCES
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 21, 2007 ;     687 words ......patients who do not have health insurance or who cannot afford to pay...The Roberts measure - "The Charity Care Fraud Prevention and Detection...found millions of dollars in "charity care" funds being given each year...is needed to ensure that charity care money is ...

Article: ASSEMBLY SPEAKER ROBERTS UNVEILS CHARITY CARE ANTI-FRAUD ACT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 1, 2007 ;     678 words ......to patients who don't have health insurance or who can't afford to pay...The Roberts measure - "The Charity Care Fraud Prevention and Detection...found millions of dollars in "charity care" funds being given each year...is needed to ensure that charity care money is ...

Article: Charity care qualification decision tree.(hfm TOOLBOX)
Healthcare Financial Management;  March 1, 2006 ;     616 words ......part of bad debt can be classified as charity care, according to 92 percent of the hospitals...to the 2005 PricewaterhouseCoopers charity care survey. This fact indicates that charity care numbers reported by hospitals may...classify their patient receivables. The charity ...

Article: WHITMAN, MCGREEVEY CALLED LAX ON CHARITY CARE
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 23, 1997 ;     697 words ......CALLED LAX ON CHARITY CARE -- HOSPITAL...fund hospital charity care. Funding for...replace the charity care that runs out...difficult issue of charity-care funding. "We...don't have health insurance," said Thomas...Municipal Council Health Care ...

Article: How much charity is enough? Nonprofit hospitals are required to give charity care to those in need. But patients who don't know about such assistance can end up in debt, and now some are suing.(NEWS)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  November 27, 2004 ;     700+ words ......being used to challenge the charity care practices of the nonprofit health care industry nationwide...has one of the most generous charity care policies in Minnesota and...hospitals provide token amounts of charity care, despite receiving state and...because the availability ...