title: Capturing your charity care: 5 recommendations.
abstract: To identify all charity care patients, hospitals should: Communicate with patients at the point of service. Make qualification for charity care as simple as possible. Use electronic databases to check patient ability to pay. Use predictive modeling techniques. Identify the frequent users of the emergency department.
authors.affiliation: Financial Health Strategies, Inc, Germantown, MD, USA. hstern@finrx.com
authors.forename: Hal T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Stern
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities / Q000191:economics*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000379:methods* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017664:Uncompensated Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States