Title: Organization and Financing of Hospital Care for indigents in South Florida
First published: August 25, 2004
Description: 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.
Subjects: MEDICAL, Economics, Health Services for the Aged, Uncompensated Care, Health Policy, Cost of operation, Medical care, Poor, Hospital care, Medically uninsured persons, Medically Uninsured, Organization & administration, Community health services, Hospital Economics, Hospitals, Medical Indigency, Medical care, cost of, Older people, medical care, Medical economics, Medical care, united states