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Title: Voluntary Commitments: Have Hospitals that Signed a Confirmation of Commitment to the American Hospital Association's Billing and Collection Guidelines Really Changed Their Ways?
Copyright Date: May 2005
Pages: 17
Authors: Bill Lottero and Carol Pryor, The Access Project
Description: In Voluntary Commitments, The Access Project reports on a survey of hospitals to find out whether they are abiding by the guidelines. The report found that few hospitals were willing to participate in the survey and discuss their charity-care policies. Even among those hospitals that participated, none consistently met all of the AHA’s recommendations.
In its recommendations, The Access Project calls on all hospitals to provide written charity-care policies to anyone who requests them and to work with community organizations that represent low-income patients to disseminate the policies and monitor their effectiveness.
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Topics: Hospital Billing & Collection