Healthcare Education and Q&A Thread

[Schneed10]

Originally Posted by dmek25

schneed, what happens at your hospital right now, if and uninsured person comes in that desperately needs help?

When you say "desperately needs help", I assume you mean emergency care. Like if they're shot, or having a heart attack.

We treat them. We have to by law. It is illegal to turn a patient away from an emergency care setting.

If they're uninsured, we try to collect from them directly. We usually fail because people can't pay. We lose nearly $75 million each year on these patients.