Charity care: are hospitals giving their fair share?
How much are hospitals spending on charity care? Overall, they spend far less of their money--about 1% to 2% of annual revenues--on true charity-care cases than the industry would like everyone to believe. The debate over charity care has been muddied by inconsistent definitions of charity care, conflicting requirements from government agencies and misleading data from hospitals.
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