Article: Revamping charity care strategies helps manage impact of uninsured population

Article: P&P Board seeks comments on revised charity ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  April 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... and the amount of charity care they provide. However ... differentiation of charity care and bad debt in 1978. This guidance ... providing charity care. Charity care and community benefit ... Accountability. Accuracy in bad debt reporting. A ...

Article: Economy taking a toll on hospitals Jumps in charity ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 19, 2008 ;     554 words ... ... first nine months of this year found that: - Charity care increased 19.1%. - Bad debt increased 19.6%. - Nearly one-third ... has not fallen sharply. But an increase in charity care and bad debt would affect operating profits. Hospitals ...

Article: Making the best of a bad (debt) situation; ...
Modern Healthcare;  February 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... hospital can focus its charity care on the patients who ... The concerns about charity care and bad debt-and especially the ... procedures to minimize bad debt. Hospitals want to ... discounted care under their charity-care policies to avoid ...

Article: Bad Debt, Charity Care Set Records at ...
U.S. Newswire;  October 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... today. Uncompensated Care -- a combination of charity care and bad debt from patients not paying their bills -- at Michigan ... uncompensated care (projected) *Uncompensated Care is charity care added to bad debts from patients who do not pay ...

Article: HFMA approves new accounting guidelines for reporting ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Valuation and Financial Statement Presentation of Charity Care and Bad Debt by Institutional Healthcare Providers. The effect of this guidance will significantly change bad debt disclosure, reflecting only those amounts initially ...

Article: Wooster Community Hospital Bad debt, charity ...
Daily Record, The Wooster, OH;  August 1, 2009 ;     607 words ... ... than $1 million of bad debt and charity care was written off ... than $2 million of bad debt to collections and ... 1.1 million in charity care. The hospital has ... appears the amount of bad debt and charity care will be down to ...

Article: Census reports foretell rise in bad debt, ...
Healthcare Financial Management;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... from the U.S. Census Bureau suggest that providers should ensure that their self-payment procedures and bad debt and charity-care policies are in good order. First, the Census Bureau reports that the uninsured U.S. population grew for ...