UNCOMPENSATED HEALTH CARE

Uncompensated Health Care



Uncompensated Health Care

Introduction

Change s in the health care e system is causing renewed concern about access to care for uninsured persons. This paper reviews trends in the amount of resources that providers are devoting to care of the medically indigent, as indicated by uncompensated care costs. The results of this study show that the amount of services provided to the medically indigent has indeed changed over the past ten to fifteen years, although the direction of the change is not consistent across types of providers. Hospital uncompensated care costs, which rose rather substantially during the early ...