The Missouri Hospital Association has posted online dollar amounts for each Missouri hospital in the following categories: uncompensated care costs (charity care and bad debt), unpaid costs of Medicare program beneficiaries, unpaid costs of Medicaid program beneficiaries, free medical services clinics, health professions education costs, financial contributions, and taxes paid. Hospitals participating in this voluntary report submitted data from their 2004 fiscal year on eight common community benefit elements. For the reporting period, the total dollar amount of benefits provided by Missouri ’s hospitals was $1.8 billion in these categories. Individual hospitals’ contributions are provided on the web site. However, each hospital provides additional benefits not listed in the report.
