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A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines Again

Publisher: Center for Studying Health System Change

Published: March 2006

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A Growing Hole in the Safety Net: Physician Charity Care Declines Again By: Cunningham PJ and May JH Published In: Tracking Report No. 13	Quantity

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Continuing a decade-long trend, the proportion of U.S. physicians providing charity care dropped to 68 percent in 2004-05 from 76 percent in 1996-97, according to a national study from the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC). The ongoing decline in physician charity care is alarming given the increase in the number of uninsured people, particularly during the first half of the decade. Declines in charity care were observed across most major specialties, practice types, practice income levels and geographic regions. Increasing financial pressures and changes in practice arrangements may account in part for the continuing decrease in physician charity care.

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