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Organization and financing of indigent hospital care in South Florida / Catherine A. Jackson, Amanda Beatty.
- Title
- Organization and financing of indigent hospital care in South Florida / Catherine A. Jackson, Amanda Beatty.
- Author
- Jackson, Catherine A., 1952-
- Publication
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2003.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | RA418.5.P6 J337 2003 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxv, 114 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
- Summary
- Care for the uninsured is a county responsibility in Florida. This report examines the approaches used by three south Florida counties - Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach - to fund care for the indigent and compares their financing mechanisms, types of services provided, patient travel patterns and costs and productivity across hospital ownership and insurance type.
- Subject
- Community Health Services > organization & administration
- Community health services > Florida
- Economics, Hospital
- Florida
- Health Services for the Aged > organization & administration
- Hospitals > Florida > Cost of operation
- Medical Indigency > economics
- Medically Uninsured
- Medically uninsured persons > Medical care > Florida
- Poor > Hospital care > Florida
- Uncompensated Care > economics
- Note
- "TR-106."
- "Prepared for the South Florida Hospital and Healthcare Association."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-114).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- South Florida's three counties: Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach -- Structures for governmental financing of indigent care -- Hospital patient travel patterns in South Florida -- Hospital funding of indigent care in South Florida -- Summary and conclusions.
- ISBN
- 0833035118 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003023337
- OCLC
- 53325580
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library