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DPH: Charity-care patients declined but costs and Medi‑Cal shortfalls persist, report finds
Summary
The San Francisco Department of Public Health presented a draft 2017 Charity Care Report showing a multi‑year decline in unduplicated charity‑care patients while charity‑care expenditures and Medi‑Cal shortfalls have stabilized or risen in recent years; commissioners asked for deeper demographic and utilization analysis.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health on June 4 presented its draft 2017 Charity Care Report, which shows unduplicated charity‑care patient counts have fallen over the past five years while some cost measures have stabilized or inched upward.
Gretchen Pauley, senior health program planner, told the Health Commission that eight hospitals report charity‑care data to DPH — five by ordinance and three voluntarily — and that the city is seeing three key trends: a decline in the number of unduplicated charity‑care patients; continued importance of Healthy San Francisco as an access point for people ineligible for Affordable Care Act coverage; and the persistence of traditional charity care to…
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