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Payers & Providers, Aug. 20, 2009
Payers & Providers, Aug. 20, 2009
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Advertise communicate that they have options,” says the Western Center on Law and Poverty in Los
Health Access Executive Director Anthony Angeles concluded that many hospitals have
(877) 248-2360, ext. 2 Wright. yet to comply with the posting requirements of
AB 774 was signed into law in 2006 by AB 774, and many others would not furnish
*For our ads, not your hospital Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and requires their discount policies on request. Western
hospitals to provide discounts to uninsured Center Staff Attorney Jen Florey says her group
or underinsured patients whose income is at is working with the CHA on templates for
In Brief or below 350% of the federal
poverty level. Hospitals are also
multi-lingual signage that can be
appropriately posted on hospital
Survey of 66 Hospitals on
required to post the availability AB 774 Compliance premises. Florey’s organization
of discounts in conspicuous lent some technical assistance
Under the proposal endorsed by
the board, Los Angeles County places. in developing the website.
The hospital industry was 43% One other issue posed by
would contribute more than $350 35%
million – including $278 million neutral toward the bill in its 30% the Western Center study was
for seismic upgrades – to reopen final form, and has no the fact that many patients
the hospital with 120 beds by late objections toward the website. who could avail themselves of
2012. The UC system would Only
operate it on a daily basis as a “We’re very supportive of Policy not
the discounts may lack the
Notice available
teaching hospital with 250 medical hospitals implementing AB not available in savvy to use the Internet,
resident slots. It would be 774,” says CHA Vice President properly on English meaning they may not be
governed by a not-for-profit posted request
of External Communications able to use its services.
venture jointly run by the county
and UC. Jan Emerson, although she Wright says several thousand
Source: Western Center on Law and Poverty
Although the UC Board of adds hospitals may be dollars of the grant money
Regents may vote on the proposal encountering issues has been earmarked toward
at its next public meeting Sept. 15, regarding full compliance. marketing the site and making it more
Los Angeles County Supervisors A study performed earlier this year by accessible.
Gloria Molina and Mike
Antonovich acknowledged that the
deal could still unravel.
County officials closed the