Concept information
Preferred term
Uncompensated Care
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Care, Indigent
- Indigent Care
Note
- absence of payment to physician, dentist, other health professional, hosp; includes lack of compensation in pro bono work & charity care & as a result of bad debts
Scope note
- Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.
History note
- 1994; for INDIGENT CARE use MEDICAL INDIGENCY 1968-1999, use INDIGENT CARE 1963-1967
In other languages
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Finnish
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maksuttomat hoidot
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D017664
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