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To: Lane3 who wrote (20977)	12/22/2003 1:42:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

One thing a lot of low income people don't realize is that they probably qualify for Medicaid after an expensive hospital stay. I can't remember the time limit for filing a claim for it but it's quite short, maybe a month or two. But if they don't apply for it, just walk out, they'll never pay the hospital, and neither will Medicaid. As the article states, Medicaid doesn't pay much, but at least it's something. Bottom line, hospitals should become more proactive about trying to get the patient to apply for Medicaid before they walk out the doors and disappear. I learned about this when I was helping a woman whose daughter had brain cancer. She was thinking of filing for bankruptcy, but when I called the hospital to talk to the billing people they converted the case to Medicaid, and she was able to keep her house. They went by the daughter's income, not the mother's. I assume that was proper.