Also..........this........with the latin invasion..........women are coming into the USA...........getting services...............having babies..........etc...........and hospitals are going broke....

Hospitals ill from bad debt, credit troubles - ABC News

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Gainesville's first community hospital has been on life support since the Shands Healthcare system in northern Florida bought it a dozen years ago.

Bad debt worries have hospitals taking earlier steps to avoid ...

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Aug 17, 2013 - Hospitals are realizing they need to be on the frontlines in ... against overly aggressive debt-collection practices—particularly in cases where ...

Healthcare Collection Statistics - ACA International

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Facts and statistics about healthcare debt and collections. ... U.S. hospitals provided $45.9 billion in uncompensated care in 2012, representing 6.1 percent of ...

Obamacare brings down hospitals' bad debt by $5.7 billion ...

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Sep 25, 2014 - Hospitals traditionally record what often is called bad debt or charity care on their books. They sometimes get reimbursed from the federal ...

Hospitals try patient loans to reduce bad debt | The ...

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Apr 6, 2014 - Some local hospitals now arrange loans for patients swamped by significant medical debt — debt that is increasingly attributed to high ...

New Rules Change The Way Non-Profit Hospitals Handle ...

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Jan 12, 2015 - While some hospitals work to assist patients in paying their ... change the way in which non-profit hospitals handle consumers and their debts.

Know Your Rights About Hospital Debt

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If you are having trouble paying a hospital bill or face a collections lawsuit, you .... In Connecticut, hospitals can sue spouses for one another's medical debts ...

Hospitals And Debt Collectors Race To Head Off Medical ...

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Jul 3, 2013 - Lawmakers and regulators are almost tripping over themselves to put in place laws and regulations limiting how hospitals and debt collectors ...

When Nonprofit Hospitals Sue Their Poorest Patients : NPR

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Dec 19, 2014 - Keith Herie is swamped in debt from medical issues he and his wife encountered starting about a decade ago. Heartland hospital is seizing 10 ...

Hospital Debt Collection - Huffington Post

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The problems just keep piling up for the nation's most famous collector of hospital debts. Accretive Health, the Chicago-based debt collection comp.