Hospital oversight board reviews charity care regulations

Hospital oversight board reviews charity care regulations

Why Should Delaware Care?Hospitals outspend other sectors of the healthcare industry by wide margins. In recent years, Delaware lawmakers have passed legislation meant to lower the impacts of those costs on the state and on patients. One of those new laws targets how hospitals administer what is called “charity care,” and who is eligible.  A state oversight board responsible for guiding how nonprofit hospitals will dole out free and discounted c…