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Texas State Senator Looks to Enforce State Charity Care Rules

9/27/2009 DARREN BARBEE THE STAR-TELEGRAM FORT WORTH, TEXAS
A state senator, Democrat Rodney Ellis of Houston, suspects that Texas’ nonprofit hospitals are not meeting their charity-care quotas under state law. The law, which Ellis wrote in 1993, offers nonprofit hospitals three ways to provide a stipulated volume of charity care. Ellis fears that the law’s lack of uniformity permits a lack of transparency and enforcement in charity care.

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Labels: charity care, hospitals, nonprofit hospital, Rodney Ellis, Texas

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Hospitals in a bind waiting for Medicaid payments

11/19/2008 DEBRA PRESSEY THE NEWS-GAZETTE.COM URBANA, ILL.
Illinois hospitals have not been paid since August for the care they provided for patients on Medicaid. Unpaid medical claims to hospitals and other medical providers totaled $1.6 billion as of last week. According to Illinois Hospital Association, hospitals may not be paid for up to a year. With supply costs rising, borrowing options narrowing, and patients unable to pay bills, hospitals are having to cut expenses and, in some cases, employees.

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Labels: hospitals, Illinois Hospital Association, Medicaid, unpaid medical claims

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Economic crisis jeopardizes health care

10/25/2008 BOB HERBERT THE NEW YORK TIMES
The economic downturn is impacting Americans on many fronts, as job losses cost workers both their incomes and their health insurance. Hospitals, which already face funding shortfalls, are forced to look for additional sources of support as the burden of treating the uninsured grows heavier.

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Labels: healthcare, hospitals, uninsured

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