... for the uninsured represent an important policy question. Using national data over an eight-year period, we find that a ten-percentage point increase in managed care penetration is associated with a two-percentage point reduction in hospital total profit margin and a 0.6 percentage point decrease in uncompensated...

...Marilyn Moon Review Essays Uncompensated Care and the Uninsured Poor United Hospital Fund, Hospitals and the Uninsured Poor: Measuring and Paying for Uncompensated Care (New York: United Hospital Fund, 1985), 188 pp. Frank A. Sloan, James F. Blumstein, and James M. Perrin...

...Christine S. Spencer In 1983, New York State established an uncompensated care pool using the New York Prospective Hospital Reimbursement Methodology (NYPHRM). Two policy objectives of the NYPHRM were (1) to encourage more equitable distribution of uncompensated care across hospitals and (2...

... of the hospitals were in rural areas and 57 percent were small (less than 150 beds). Most of the patients (87.2 percent) incurred uncompensated amounts under $2,500, and 40 percent of the cases were below $500. About 72 percent of the patients with uncompensated care were from the same county as the location...

...Kenneth E. Thorpe; Christine Spencer Uncompensated care pools have been used by several states in their attempt to aid hospitals and increase the volume of care provided to patients without health insurance. We examined the uncompensated care pool used in New York State between 1983 and 1987. Our...

...Kenneth E. Thorpe; Charles Brecher This study compares the volume of uncompensated care provided to the uninsured poor in cities with public hospitals to that provided in cities without a public hospital in order to determine whether public hospitals increase access to care. Multiple regression...

... one million people lost their sole source of primary health care. 153 154 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law private hospitals provided very little uncompensated care and did not increase their provision of such care...

... Financial Management Association. Coye , M.J. 1988 . Access to Health Care: The New Jersey Uncompensated Care Trust Fund. Trenton: New Jersey State Department of Health. Crawford , S. , H. Berliner, M. McNamara, and M. Coye. 1988 . Paying Hospitals for Uncompensated Care: Impact on Access...

... the 2009 tax year, sixteen states have laws requiring tax-exempt hospitals to enumerate the benefits that they provide to the community. Information about the impact of these laws on the provision of community benefits (e.g., charity and uncompensated care) is examined in this study whose primary purpose...

... distributive objectives. Among the concerns for equity were financing uncompensated care and spreading the costs across all payers, reducing the differential between hospital charges and costs, and rejuvenating fiscally distressed hospitals. These diverse goals represent a fundamental shift in the role...

... Lawyers Association, Philadelphia, June 26–27. Desai, K., C. VanDeusen Lukas, and G. Young. 2000 . Public Hospitals: Privatization and Uncompensated Care. Health Affairs 19 (2): 167 -172. Desai, K., G. Young, and C. VanDeusen Lukas. 1998 . Conversions of For-Profit Hospitals to Nonprofit...

..., and results in poor health outcomes. The unin- sured also generate uncompensated care. According to the most recent data (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1996), approximately 40.6 million Americans were uninsured throughout 1995. This represents approximately the same number of uninsured estimated during...

... adequate community benefits because the monies they would otherwise pay in taxes were not resulting in higher levels of charity care. Several studies examined hospital uncompensated care, namely, unre- imbursed costs resulting from charity care and bad debt. A number of studies found...

... . Financing Uncompensated Care with All-Payer Rate Regulation. In Uncompensated Hospital Care: Rights and Responsibilities, ed. F. A. Sloan, J. F. Blumstein, and J. M. Perrin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Monheit , A. C. , M. M. Hagen, and M. L. Berk. 1985 . The Employed Uninsured...

.... Health Law Vigil 9 ( 11 ): 7 -8. Blendon , R.J. 1986 . Health Policy Choices for the 1990s. Issues in Science and Technology. Summer, pp. 65 -73. Blendon , R. J. , L. M. Aiken, H. E. Freeman, B. L. Kirkman-Liff, and J. W. Murphy. 1986 . Uncompensated Care by Hospitals or Public...

... permits a range of Medicaid options for states, including some that may be very attractive from state officials' political perspectives. In the context of the presidential campaign, the uncompensated care problem, and their concerns about costs of expansion, state officials are weighing their options...

... facilitated the expansion of health care coverage to over 100,000 additional Oregonians, helped decrease the percentage of the uninsured as well as reduce uncompensated care in hospitals, reduced the use of hospital emergency rooms, and reduced cost shifting. By most measures, the Oregon experiment appears...

... system and its reimbursement of uncompensated care, an evolving Medicaid and children's health program, and regulation of the small group health insurance market. Several important patterns emerge from the Maryland experience. First, even the most incremental initiatives—programs intended to aid a few...

.... 1997 . A Profile of Uncompensated Hospital Care, 1983-1995. Health Affairs 16 : 223 -232. McClellan, M., and D. Staiger. 2000 . Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals. In The Changing Hospital Industry , ed. D. M. Cutler, 93-112. Chicago: University of Chicago...

... . State Trends in Hospital Uncompensated Care. Health Affairs 16 ( 4 ): 233 -241. Baker, F. D. 1976 . Prospective Rate Setting in Washington State. Topics in Health Care Financing 3 ( 2 ): 57 -81. Barrilleaux, C., and P. Brace. 2007 . Notes from the Laboratories of Democracy: State...