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2006 Community Benefits Annual Report Summary
CHRISTUS Health continues its commitment to offer the highest quality health care services for all, even as the economy continues to negatively impact health insurance coverage and family incomes, and Texas and Louisiana lead the nation in percent uninsured.
CHRISTUS Health follows the Catholic Health Association (CHA) guidelines for reporting community benefit; for hospitals in Texas, CHRISTUS also reports to the state of Texas following state regulations.
Charity Care is defined as the unpaid cost of medical services provided to the uninsured and underinsured, including Medicaid. During fiscal year 2006, CHRISTUS provided more than $248 million in Charity Care, an increase of 8.7 percent from fiscal year 2005. Of this amount, Unpaid Government Indigent Care for the underserved, predominately Medicaid, is more than $91 million of unpaid costs for fiscal year 2006, an increase of 3.2 percent from the prior year.
CHRISTUS Health also contributed more than $37 million in Community Services to the communities we serve in fiscal year 2006. Thus, CHRISTUS Health provided more than $286 million in total community benefits, which is 11.2 percent of net patient revenue in fiscal year 2006. This equates to more than $784,000 a day in community benefits.
In addition, cost of Unpaid Government Sponsored Programs, mostly Medicare, is reported to the state of Texas following the state’s Community Benefit reporting requirements. This year the amount for the system was more than $251 million or 9.8 percent of CHRISTUS’ net patient revenue. In accordance with CHA Guidelines, CHRISTUS Health does not include this amount in reports of community benefit provided to other agencies.
