title: How effective is your organization's financial assistance eligibility program?
abstract: Steps to take in determining whether your organization's financial assistance eligibility program should be revamped include the following: Conduct a "gap analysis" to evaluate your organization's specific needs. Communicate with other facilities that have faced similar problems to uncover what solutions worked--or didn't work--for them. Recognize that identifying coverage for the underinsured and uninsured requires a special skill set.
authors.affiliation: Ochsner Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA, USA. awest@ochsner.org
authors.forename: Don
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Woodward
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities; D004469:Economics, Hospital; D004608:Eligibility Determination / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D008145:Louisiana; D017057:Medically Uninsured