title: Uncompensated care. Balancing on a thin fiscal line.
abstract: Uncompensated care affects every hospital in Texas--and threatens the very survival of some. As the volume of uninsured services grows, and the question of who will pay for those who cannot remains largely unanswered, hospital administrators are left to perform fiscal balancing acts. Health Texas visited with three hospitals that typify the serious problems uncompensated care poses for the health care industry.
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authors: Kobylus
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000191:economics; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency / Q000191:economics*; D013781:Texas