09.05.2008 9:00 pm

Sunday editorial: Re-writing the rules on charity care

The sticky issue of charity care — health care delivered by a hospital without the expectation of payment — got a lot of attention last week.

A circuit court judge in St. Louis, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan and members of…

Tags: B.J.C. Healthcare, charity care, health insurance, hospitals, Illinois Attorney General, John G. Carlton, lisa madigan, poverty, U.S. Senate finance Committee, uninsured

04.29.2008 4:47 pm

Paying up front for health care

By John G. Carlton

Nonprofit hospitals are increasingly demanding payment in advance for complex and expensive cancer treatments and other non-emergency care for life-threatening illness, the Wall Street Journal reports this week.

It highlights the story of 52-year-old Lisa Kelly of Lake Jackson, TX., who was…

Tags: B.J.C. Healthcare, health care, health costs, hospitals, leukemia, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, nonprofit hospitals, Wall Street Journal

Sunday editorial: Re-writing the rules on charity care

Paying up front for health care

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