title: Sharp healthcare: a smarter plan to help the uninsured.
abstract: Sharp HealthCare partnered with a not-for-profit patient advocacy organization to develop a tool for determining its self-pay patients' eligibility to receive healthcare coverage. Under the partnership, Sharp has made a "health coverage eligibility quiz" developed by the not-for-profit available to patients, which patients can use to obtain a personalized list of healthcare coverage options. Hospitals that adopt a similar program may find that a high percentage of self-pay accounts that had previously represented lost revenue are actually eligible to be covered under various government and other programs for uninsured patients.
authors.affiliation: Sharp HealthCare, San Diego, USA. gerilynn.sevenikar@sharp.com
authors.forename: Gerilynn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sevenikar
authors.forename: Ankeny
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Minoux
mesh_terms: D002140:California; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D004608:Eligibility Determination; D005382:Financing, Personal; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection / Q000458:organization & administration*