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Sat Jul 25 15:58:07 BST 2009

Before Dr. McSwain's prodigious memory kicks in, I'll point out that during 
 that time, the Louisiana State Employee's Group Medical Insurance was 
pretty  much *only* accepted at the Charity and University Hospitals. In 
addition, few  of the local OB docs or hospitals would accept medicaid for 
delivery.  Essentially, we had a major paying captive audience.

Starting with another hospital I was associated with in 1993-94 time frame, 
 most of the hospitals in the state started to accept that insurance, which 
 quickly diluted the income from State Group. About the same time, Medicaid 
 decided to increase the payments for delivery (bundled with prenatal 
care), and  more private OB docs and hospitals started doing those deliveries 
again.

ck
Charles S. Krin, DO

In a message dated 7/25/2009 08:46:18 Central Standard Time,  
nmcswai at tulane.edu writes:

But the  system was supported by oil money which is no longer available. 
Now Big  Charity in New Orleans (which does operate in the black) supports the 
rest of  the Charity hospitals in the southern part of the state. I am not 
familiar  with the finances of those in the  north

Norman

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