title: Doctors, county team up to offer free health care.
abstract: A public/private partnership in North Carolina has resulted in free health care for 13,000 indigent patients a year. 85% of the physicians in the county's medical society volunteer to take patients into their practice for free. The county government pays $250,000 a year for medications and administrative costs, leveraging $3.5 million in free care.
mesh_terms: D003151:Community Health Centers / Q000191:economics*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005380:Financing, Government; D006801:Humans; D008489:Medical Indigency; D009657:North Carolina; D011203:Poverty; D017149:Private Sector; D017150:Public Sector; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014838:Volunteers