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Monday, June 8, 2009

Community benefit

Keep this in the back of you mind when discussing charity care and bad debt -- especially in light of the study on medical bill related bankruptcy. In 2007, Missouri hospitals were given authority by the legislature to garnish tax refunds of patients with hospital debt. We didn't.
Posted by Dave Dillon at 1:59 PM

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