The hospital staff will not travel to Westchester to see paying patients.
Until the last few years, most hospitals were able to pass much of the cost of treating the uninsured onto paying patients.
He said that the capacity devoted to 'paying patients' would be better for the rest of us.
Financially squeezed by the depression of the 1880s, they began to accept paying patients.
We practice the Robin Hood theory and we're blessed with a very substantial base of paying patients who support the medical center.
Paying patients have risen from about 35 a month in mid-1996 to 400 today.
They note that the hospital surgeons already perform hundreds of such surgeries a year for paying patients.
Hospital administrators paid more attention to the number of paying patients you brought in than to the outcome obtained.
"Paying patients and third-party providers would, in effect, subsidize charity care."
Having physicians as part owners of health care facilities does bring in paying patients.