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Organization and Financing of Indigent Hospital Care in South Florida.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Catherine.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hospitals--Florida--Cost of operation.
- Economics.
- Persons.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Indigency.
- Health Services for the Aged.
- Economics, Hospital.
- Medically Uninsured.
- Uncompensated Care.
- Community Health Services.
- Patient Care Management.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Population Characteristics.
- Names.
- Health Services Administration.
- Medical Subjects:
- Economics.
- Persons.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Services.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Indigency.
- Health Services for the Aged.
- Economics, Hospital.
- Medically Uninsured.
- Uncompensated Care.
- Community Health Services.
- Patient Care Management.
- Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services.
- Health Care Economics and Organizations.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Population Characteristics.
- Names.
- Health Services Administration.
- Local Subjects:
- Hospitals--Florida--Cost of operation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (142 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica : RAND Corporation, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; PREFACE; CONTENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. SOUTH FLORIDA'S THREE COUNTIES; 3. Structures for Governmental Financing of Indigent Care; 4. Hospital Patient travel patterns in South Florida; 5. Hospital funding of indigent care in South Florida; 6. Summary and conclusions; Appendices; References
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781598754100
- 1598754106
- OCLC:
- 437150110
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