uncompensated care

Preferred Label : uncompensated care;

MeSH definition : Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.;

MeSH synonym : care, uncompensated;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Poor relief;

MeSH hyponym : indigent care; Care, Indigent;

MeSH annotation : absence of payment to physician, dentist, other health professional, hosp; includes lack of compensation in pro bono work & charity care & as a result of bad debts;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor relief;

Details

Origin ID

D017664;

UMLS CUI

C0206130;

Allowable qualifiers
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- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
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Metaterm(s)
- social affairs [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- indigent care [MeSH concept]
- uncompensated care [MeSH concept]
See also
- charities [MeSH Descriptor]
- medical indigency [MeSH Descriptor]
- medically uninsured [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- poverty [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- economics [CISMeF Metaterm]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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