Charity Care Among Physicians Decreased by 5% from 1997 to 2001

December 30, 2002 Charity Care Among Physicians Decreased by 5% from 1997 to 2001 The proportion of doctors providing any charity care decreased nearly 5 percentage points, from 76.3% in 1997 to 71.5% in 2001; and the proportion of physicians serving Medicaid patients also decreased from 87.1% in 1997 to 85.4% in 2001.  A study, entitled “Mounting Pressures – Physicians Serving Medicaid Patients and the Uninsured,” indicated that among physicians that provide charity care, 70.2% spend less than 5% of their total practice time on charity care, while 28.9% spend more than 5% of their . . .