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## Abstract During the 1980s and 1990s, a slowdown in federal and state support for the care of the poor and decreasing reimbursements for the privately insured led to an increase in uncompensated care costs for American hospitals. To recoup some of their debts, hospitals and doctors’ offices began to provide less charity-care, turned more patients away at their doors (particularly Black patients and pregnant women), and relied increasingly on collections agencies. Initially, hospitals were wary of sending bills to collections, in part for fear of bad press, but soon the practice became common throughout the country. Medical debt was fast becoming a significant portion of the work of debt collectors, whose phone calls and letters and visits became a recurring feature of the lives of poor patients. By the mid-2000s, hospitals were no longer just assigning debt to collection agencies but selling it outright to private debt buyers.
- Author
- Luke Messac
- Publisher
- Oxford University PressNew York
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780197676646
- Subjects
- Political Science, Medical, History
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