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Ready for prime time? Make your financial assistance policy a class act: hospitals should feel free to offer uninsured patients discounts or financial assistance to pay for healthcare services; but they also should make sure their financial assistance policies are ready for the bright light of regulatory scrutiny
- Source :
- Healthcare Financial Management. March, 2005, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p48, 8 p.
- Publication Year :
- 2005
-
Abstract
- Nearly 30 years ago. Milton Friedman wrote There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. To which hospitals might respond, "Have you heard about health care, Milton?" Hospitals traditionally have [...]
- Subjects :
- Health care industry
Company business management
Government regulation
American Hospital Association -- Reports
Hospitals -- Services
Hospitals -- Management
Health care industry -- Laws, regulations and rules
Administrative agencies -- Laws, regulations and rules
Medically uninsured persons -- Management
Medically uninsured persons -- Statistics
Bad debts
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 07350732
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Gale General OneFile
- Journal :
- Healthcare Financial Management
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- edsgcl.130469633