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Board approves updated charity-care and collection policies; records closed-session actions
Summary
Tahoe Forest Hospital District directors approved HCAI-mandated edits to the district's financial assistance and collections policies and recorded several closed-session outcomes. The board also approved routine consent items and medical staff reappointments.
Tahoe Forest Hospital District directors voted to adopt revisions to the system's financial assistance (charity care) and credit/collections policies after a state review identified language that needed correction.
The changes respond to a review by California's Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). Crystal (last name not specified), speaking for the staff, said HCAI noted several issues ranging from missing language specifying eligibility at or below 400% of the federal poverty level to required wording about application timing. Staff told the board the corrections were technical and intended to bring the documents into compliance.
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