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Originally Posted by stevew
Still, hospitals are in a bind. The more than 5,000 community hospitals in the United States provided $39.3 billion in uncompensated care — predominately unpaid patient debts or charity care — in 2010, up 16 percent from 2007, the hospital association estimated.
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Thanks. Yeah, that's got to be tough to measure, especially if we're talking across hospitals, and considering that the hospital receives varying levels of compensation depending on who's paying, whether it's a commercial insurer, government insurer, or the patient. I guess since no compensation is received this could all be considered patient, so yeah, that makes it trumped up in a way, since commercial and government insurers generally pay providers less than uninsured patients.