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DataWatch Health AffairsVol. 11, No. 2 Bad Debt And Free Care In Massachusetts HospitalsJoel S. Weissman, Carol Van Deusen Lukas, and Arnold M. Epstein AffiliationsBrigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical SchoolThe Massachusetts Department of Medical SecurityHarvard Medical School, an associate professor of medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health, and chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research at Brigham and Women's HospitalPUBLISHED:Summer 1992No Accesshttps://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.11.2.148AboutSectionsView articleView Full TextView PDFPermissions ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions View articleTOPICSUninsuredUncompensated carePatient careHospital staysDiseasesHealth conditionsAccess to carePrivate health insuranceInsurance statusPayment Loading Comments... Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. DetailsExhibitsReferencesRelated Article MetricsCitations: Crossref 5 History Published online 1 January 1992 InformationCopyright © by Project HOPE: The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe authors thank Larry Levitt and jocelyn Gordon at the Massachusetts Department of Medical Security for their help in compiling the data set. We gratefully acknowledge the following persons for their valuable contributions to the work reported here: Stephen Crane, Anthony Komaroff, Sharon Lise-Normand, and Barbara J. McNeil. We also thank Jennifer Brandenburg for help with programming, Iris Bennett for preparation of tables and figures, and Po Harvey and Ann Seymour for typing the manuscript.PDF downloadCited byHow much uncompensated care do doctors provide?Journal of Health Economics, Vol. 26, No. 6Process of Care for Medicaid-Enrolled Children With AsthmaMedical Care, Vol. 40, No. 4Firearm violence in the United States: an overviewCurrent Surgery, Vol. 57, No. 1Income levels of bad-debt and free-care patients in Massachusetts hospitals Does uncompensated care serve the truly needy?Joel S. Weissman, Poul Dryfoos, and Katharine London13 December 2018 | Health Affairs, Vol. 18, No. 4Determinants of Hospital Bad Debt: Multivariate Statistical Analysis21 June 2016 | Health Services Management Research, Vol. 12, No. 1
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