Hospitals’ Charity Care

Immigration, charity care and ethics: what should Catholic hospitals do?

Hospitals, managed care, and the charity caseload in California.

We ask whether increasing HMO penetration causes hospitals to cut back on charity care using California hospital discharge data for 1988-1996. There is little evidence at the hospital level that private hospitals respond to HMOs by turning away uninsured and/or Medicaid patients. In the for-profit sector hospitals actually reduce the share of privately insured patients and increase the shares o...

Charity and the London hospitals, 1850–1898

Despite recognizing their importance, hospital historians have traditionally been less interested in the administrative and financial aspects of institutions under study, although paradoxically this documentation has survived much better than clinical records. We tend easily to forget that most hospitals periodically teetered on the brink of insolvency even though many had been initially launch...

Do Nonprofit Hospitals Provide Less Charity Care When Faced with Financial Losses?

This paper studies the impact of financial loss on the provision of social or merit goods by nonprofit hospitals. Specifically, it estimates the effect of the sharp reduction in hospital net income following the 2008 financial crisis on the supply of charity care. Using a quasiexperimental design with both matched and unmatched control groups, we find that hospital income is not predictive of c...

Health Reform’s Impact on Charity Care

harity care programs (CCPs) have historically provided access to care and subsidized health coverage for uninsured and underinsured populations in the U.S. With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), these safety‐net programs are adjusting to the new health care environment. Many individuals who previously used charity care services now have health coverage options through the ACA...