Medical Indigency
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Transforming revenue cycle processes in an indigent care setting.

30 Aug 2009 Steps that Grady Health System in Atlanta undertook in transforming its revenue cycle include: Conducting a complete revenue cycle assessment. Enhancing staff skill levels and customer service techniques--and holding staff. accountable for errors. ... Read more...

Health information exchange and healthcare utilization.

30 May 2009 Health information exchange (HIE) makes previously inaccessible data available to clinicians, resulting in more complete information. This study tested the hypotheses that HIE information access reduced emergency room visits and inpatient ... Read more...

Women at risk: why many women are forgoing needed health care. An analysis of the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey.

29 Apr 2009 Rising health care costs coupled with eroding health care benefits are having a substantial effect on Americans' ability to get needed health care, with women particularly affected. Women experience cost-related access problems and medical bill ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Medical Indigency'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Transforming revenue cycle processes in an indigent care setting. 30 Aug 2009
• Pharmaceutical companies' medication assistance programs. 30 Jul 2009
• A piece of my mind. Clinic of tears. 8 Jun 2009
• Health information exchange and healthcare utilization. 30 May 2009
• SCHIP renewal. 29 Apr 2009
• Women at risk: why many women are forgoing needed health care. An analysis of the Commonwealth Fund 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Survey. 29 Apr 2009
• Financial and health burdens of chronic conditions grow. 30 Mar 2009
• Beyond Incrementalism? SCHIP and the politics of health reform. 15 Mar 2009
• The unlicensed lives of antidepressants in India: generic drugs, unqualified practitioners, and floating prescriptions. 27 Feb 2009
• Free clinic volunteers find they experience the joy of medicine. 27 Feb 2009
• Older people's experience of proactive welfare rights advice: qualitative study of a South Asian community. 30 Jan 2009
• Reforming China's health care: for the people, by the people? 22 Jan 2009
• The fast-food fund. 13 Jan 2009
• The top health care news story of 2008: the ailing economy. 30 Dec 2008
• Is access sufficient? An examination of the effects of the MedShare program to expand access to prescription drugs for indigent populations. 29 Nov 2008
• Non-evidence-based policy: how effective is China's new cooperative medical scheme in reducing medical impoverishment? 16 Nov 2008
• Internal fixation of mandibular angle fractures: a comparison of 2 techniques. 30 Oct 2008
• Uninsured adults presenting to US emergency departments: assumptions vs data. 20 Oct 2008
• A piece of my mind. Remembering Earl. 20 Oct 2008
• Pharmacist-implemented pharmaceutical manufacturers' assistance programs: effects on health outcomes for seniors. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Medical Indigency'

Definition: The condition in which individuals are financially unable to access adequate medical care without depriving themselves and their dependents of food, clothing, shelter, and other essentials of living.

Descriptor UI: D008489

Alternative terms: Medical Indigency; Indigency, Medical; Indigencies, Medical; Medical Indigencies;

Related Mesh Headings: Medically Uninsured; Uncompensated Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: N01.824.460; N03.219.780;

Online Note: use MEDICAL INDIGENCY to search INDIGENT CARE 1966-67

History Note: 68; was INDIGENT CARE 1963-67

Technical Notes: DF: MED INDIGENCY