Iowa hospitals provided $1.05 billion in uncompensated care in 2012, a 10.1 percent increase from 2011, according to an Iowa Hospital Association report.
The 118 hospitals provided $641 million in charity care and wrote off $405 million in bad debt expenses, according to the report. Medicare and Medicaid losses totaled $289 million for the hospitals surveyed. These programs account for approximately 60 percent of
Uncompensated care has been increasing relative to hospital revenue in
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