The cost of health care in the U.S. has been ballooning: A recent report found that the U.S. collectively spends about $9,000 per person on health care each year, which adds up to 17 percent of the country’s GDP.
But what happens when patients can’t afford to pay their bills? At nonprofit hospitals, an unpaid bill either becomes bad debt for the patient or is written off as "charity care." Nationally, this adds up to $57 billion in uncompensated care. But a group of researchers argue that the way charity care is given out could be made more efficient.
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