Oregon Hospitals Report More Than $1.5B in Community Benefits in 2009

Oregon hospitals reported more than $1.5 billion in community benefit expenses in 2009, and about $1.2 million of that was for charity care and other public programs, according to a report from the Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research (pdf).

The other $300 million went to health professions education, research and community health improvement initiatives.

Other highlights from the report include the following:

•    Uncompensated care — which includes charity care and bad debt —  provided by Oregon hospitals is approaching $1.2 billion, which was roughly 7.5 percent of the state's 2009 gross patient revenue. This was more than double the 3.1 percent of gross patient revenue from 1999.
•    Subsidization of Medicare and Medicaid losses accounted for 53.5 percent of Oregon's net community benefit expenses.
•    In 2007, private payors paid for 44.7 percent of hospital payments, and in 2009, they paid for 39.2 percent.

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