More hospitals are seeing a rise in self-pay patients who can't or won't pay their bills, according to various reports.
In Georgia, hospitals provided more than $1.3 billion in uncompensated care in 2007, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Twenty percent of the population was uninsured 2009, the highest number in the past 10 years. The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon saw an increase of $30 million in inpatient charity care and bad debt in fiscal year 2010.
All Cleveland Clinic facilities in northeast Ohio will stop accepting uninsured patients who can't pay for care, aren't eligible for government assistance and live more than 150 miles away from Cleveland, according to a Port Clinton News Herald report. The changes will apply to patients who earn between 250-400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Read more on hospital finance:
-Hospitals Across Country Report Increase in Uncompensated Care
-10 Key Trends for Hospitals in 2011
In Georgia, hospitals provided more than $1.3 billion in uncompensated care in 2007, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution report. Twenty percent of the population was uninsured 2009, the highest number in the past 10 years. The Medical Center of Central Georgia in Macon saw an increase of $30 million in inpatient charity care and bad debt in fiscal year 2010.
All Cleveland Clinic facilities in northeast Ohio will stop accepting uninsured patients who can't pay for care, aren't eligible for government assistance and live more than 150 miles away from Cleveland, according to a Port Clinton News Herald report. The changes will apply to patients who earn between 250-400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Read more on hospital finance:
-Hospitals Across Country Report Increase in Uncompensated Care
-10 Key Trends for Hospitals in 2011