TY  - JOUR
T1  - MAnaged care, charity care, and the common good
AU  - Larkin GL, Marco CA, Fields W
Y1  - 1999/11/03
N1  - 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-17-jbk1103
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1619
EP  - 1621
VL  - 282
IS  - 17
N2  - 
We would like to comment on the theoretical concern of the authors that
"more of the burden of providing indigent care could be shifted onto the major
safety net providers. . . . "1 This concern
is not merely theoretical—it is already a reality, with growing ramifications.
The burden of uncompensated care increasingly falls on emergency physicians,
who, because of long-standing ethical traditions and legal obligations, provide
more than $425 million in uncompensated costs, annually, in professional services
for 16.7 million emergency department visits made by the uninsured.2- 3 Comparative analysis reveals
that group practice physicians provide an average of approximately $20,000
per year in uncompensated care, while emergency physicians provide an average
of more than $100,000 per physician per year in uncompensated care.4

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-17-jbk1103
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10-1001/pubs.JAMA-ISSN-0098-7484-282-17-jbk1103
ER  -