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Uncompensated Care

Known as: Care, Uncompensated 
Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2016
Highly Cited
2016
Uncompensated Care Decreased At Hospitals In Medicaid Expansion States But Not At Hospitals In Nonexpansion States.
One pillar of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was its expected impact on the growing burden of uncompensated care costs for the… 
Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Failure to rescue in safety-net hospitals: availability of hospital resources and differences in performance.
IMPORTANCE Failure to rescue (FTR), the mortality rate among surgical patients with complications, is an emerging quality… 
Review
2007
Review
2007
The surgical hospitalist: a new model for emergency surgical care.
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Legal empowerment for local resource control : securing local resource rights within foreign investment projects in Africa
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Analysis of uncompensated hospital care using a DEA model of output congestion
Uncompensated care can create financial difficulties for hospitals. The problem is likely to worsen as the number of individuals… 
2005
2005
The trouble with uncompensated hospital care.
According to the American Hospital Association, hospitals spent about $25 billion on uncompensated care last year. Given the… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Specialty versus community hospitals: what role for the law?
U.S. health care has long featured a struggle between regulation and markets as vehicles of reform, and the community hospital is… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Toward estimating the impact of changes in immigrants' insurance eligibility on hospital expenditures for uncompensated care
BackgroundThe Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 gave states the option to withdraw… 
1996
1996
Uncompensated hospital care. Will it be there if we need it?
  • J. Weissman
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1996
  • Corpus ID: 46350479
The debates over health care system reform continue, but they rarely mention the enduring need for free or reduced-cost hospital… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Uncompensated care by hospitals or public insurance for the poor. Does it make a difference?
Results from two recent surveys of access to medical care, one nationwide and the other in Arizona, were analyzed to determine… 
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