Definition: Medical services for which no payment is received. Uncompensated care includes charity care and bad debts.
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
See AlsoMedical Indigency; Medically Uninsured
Other names Indigent Care; Care, Uncompensated; Care, Indigent