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Compassionate Charity Care
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Alegent Health provides generous, compassionate, appropriate care for our uninsured, underinsured and low-income patients, treating every person with the dignity and respect we would want our families and ourselves to receive.
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• A financial assistance counselor works in partnership with patients admitted without insurance or those who are underinsured to identify appropriate assistance with bills, including Alegent Health’s own direct financial assistance program.
• Alegent Health offers a direct financial assistance program for the uninsured and the underinsured, which can substantially reduce patient costs.
• In fiscal year 2004 alone, Alegent Health spent roughly $5 million providing charity care for uninsured and underinsured patients and about $11 million in support of community health and wellness programs.
• Alegent Health is fulfilling its commitment to care for this community’s uninsured and underinsured — and in the last five years spent nearly $17 million providing charity care and absorbed more than $231 million in underpayments from Medicaid and Medicare
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