title: The charity offering. Despite disparity in margins, rich and poor hospitals offer similar levels of subsidized care.
abstract: Despite large variations in margins among hospitals, there is a much smaller difference in how much goes toward free and subsidized spending. But hospital officials say focusing on free care unfairly excludes other subsidized spending and community services. Poudre Valley Health System's Rulon Stacey, left, says the system has increased subsidized health spending to $26.1 million, not all of which is reflected as charity care.
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Evans
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets; D004469:Economics, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D017664:Uncompensated Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States