Health Reform’s Impact on Charity Care

Welfare Reform’s Impact on Child Welfare

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...

Hospital charity care policies and the California health care safety net.

Estimates of charity care expenditures provide a quantitative measure of hospitals' commitment to expanding access to the medically uninsured in their communities but fail to provide information about the subset of uninsured who benefit or the gaps in public insurance programs' coverage that are filled by these charity care programs. This brief provides an overview of a study, conducted for the...

عوامل مؤثر بر انتخاب ارائه‌دهندگان خدمات سلامت دولتی، خصوصی و خیریه

Background and Objective: People act differently in choosing their health care providers. This study was conducted to identify the effective factors on choosing health care providers in public, private, and charity in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences’ staff.   Materials and Methods: This research was a cross-sectional applied study that was conducted in 2016. The study sample ...

Identifying charity care in financial statements.

M ost healthcare institutions have now presented at least one year's audited inancial information using the format and definitions required by the new audit and accounting guide, Audits of Providers of Health Care Services (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants [AICPA], NewYork City, 1990). The guide requires facilities to report charity care and allows them to report community ser...