Charity care news and information

Prime Healthcare Services, Ontario, Calif., has received the go-ahead from the Kansas attorney general's office to buy two hospitals in the state.
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California hospitals are decrying a bill supported by organized labor that threatens to strip tax exemptions from profitable not-for-profit hospitals in the state.
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Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in the coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients than envisioned under the federal healthcare reform law. A report from Moody's Investors Service...
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Hospitals in states that elect not to expand their Medicaid programs could find their bottom lines squeezed in coming years as they're hit with higher charity-care costs and fewer insured patients.
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In the late 1970s, shortly after giving up her post as head of the Catholic Hospital Association, Sister Mary Maurita Sengelaub didn't seek another position at the pinnacle of healthcare administration. Instead, she threw herself into a campaign to provide healthcare for seasonal farmworkers in...
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