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San Francisco DPH report: charity care patient counts fall after ACA; commissioners ask staff to redesign reporting
Summary
DPH presented a combined FY2013–14 Charity Care Report showing a drop in overall charity care patients and expenditures after ACA enrollment; commissioners and hospital representatives agreed to continue reporting this year while DPH returns in about three months with a plan to streamline reporting and emphasize community benefit and equity.
Colleen Chawla and Mavis Acedu Frimpong presented the Department of Public Health(DPH) report on the FY2013— charity care data, saying the ordinance that established reporting in 2001 remains an important transparency tool.
The report showed a marked shift from traditional charity care to Healthy San Francisco enrollment: Healthy San Francisco patient counts fell from about 61,000 to about 51,000, a decline of roughly 10,000, and total charity care patients declined from about 110,000 to about 97,000 between the two years analyzed. Across the eight hospitals that submit data, charity care expenditures declined by about $21 million while the Medi-Cal shortfall…
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