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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Charity care"”.
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Effects of Board Composition on Pricing of Charity Care among Nonprofit Hospitals
… been steadily raising listed prices for patient care, primarily due to competitive pressures from for-profit hospitals, increasing costs, and regulatory pressures. Prior literature shows that one reason for this trend has been to increase reported charity care to meet state regulatory reporting …
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Physician and Patient Satisfaction With Charity Care: The Case of Health Access Network in Utah
… play a significant role in providing health care to low-income, uninsured individuals. This deep-rooted tradition of charity care is consistent with the libertarian values that underlie the United States’ for-profit, capitalist health care system. Anthropological research is well-suited to …
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Charity in Health Care: Safety Net or (Moral) Safety Valve?
Charity in health care has a vast and rich history that crosses boundaries with religious traditions and professional moral obligations. Charity can be considered a virtue that entails altruism, beneficence, generosity, mercy, and kindness. The health care safety net is a newer term that refers to …
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Essays in Health Economics
… how regulatory requirements influence hospital charity care by analyzing the Hill-Burton Act of 1946, which allocated $6 billion to over 3,500 hospitals in exchange for providing free care to uninsured patients. I find that after these obligations expire, hospitals strategically reduce charity …
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Attempts to Collect: A Quantitative Analysis of Medical Debt Lawsuits Filed in Thurston County in 2020
… originated with hospitals required to provide charity care. We found one Federally Qualified Health Center and three public hospital districts that sued Thurston County patients in 2020. We also found 16% of lawsuits originated from dental services.
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UTMB's History of Care for the Indigent
… and federal support for indigent health care is eroding in the face of a war in the Middle East. With the 2008 race for the presidency of the United States in full swing, however, candidates increasingly are focusing on providing some kind of health care coverage for the 15.6 percent of …
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Financial Reporting Manipulation And The Role Of Religious Ownership: Evidence From Nonprofit Hospitals
… not appear to differ with respect to strategic charity care classification. Supplemental tests indicate that the earnings management result is driven by fourth-quarter differences and that the effect is especially pronounced for the Medicaid payor. Additional analyses also consider a potential …
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Citizenship, social work and disabled people in Malaysia
… typology of organisations emerged namely charity care, enabling care, advocacy and self-help. Further analysis identified clear differences in priorities and programmes adopted by voluntary organisations controlled and managed by disabled people and those by non-disabled people. This …
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US Health Care Crisis: Implications for Education, Medical Praxis, and Democracy
… and political aspects of the culture of health care reform in the United States (US) and to investigate the underlying ideologies, values, and purposes of medical practice in a changing democratic society. Using Michel Foucault's cultural studies approach as the theoretical framework for the …