Financial Summary of Community Benefits/Charity Care
During fiscal year 2019, Crouse Health provided more than $32 million in charity care, bad debt expense and other uncompensated care to individuals and families in our 15-county region.
Total Charity Care
Charity care (non-reimbursed cost for providing free or discounted care to patients who cannot afford healthcare services) | $3,655,730 |
Total Bad Debt
| Bad debt expense (cost of services provided for which a patient’s bill is not rendered or for which a fee has been assessed that recovers only a portion of the cost of the service) | $7,281,744 |
Other Uncompensated Care
| Medicaid subsidized healthcare services (difference between actual cost to deliver care and government reimbursement) | $21,449,392 |
| Other government-sponsored healthcare services (difference between actual cost to deliver care and government reimbursement) | $1,570,847 |
| Medicare at cost (cost of providing services to beneficiaries of the Medicare program in excess of government reimbursement) | $24,674,381 |
