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Christie administration announces plan to share $675M in charity care payments among N.J. hospitals
The Christie administration announced today how New Jersey’s hospitals will share $675 million in charity care payments to cover some of the costs of treating the working poor and the uninsured in the next fiscal year.
About 90 percent of the money will go toward maintaining the same compensation levels as in the current fiscal year, according to Mary O’Dowd, the commissioner of Health and Senior Services, with the remainder shifted from hospitals that treated fewer uninsured patients to those who treated more from to 2009 to 2010, the most recent figures available. (Livio, The Star-Ledger)