This study is one of the first to quantify the uncompensated care provided by Florida emergency physicians. Emergency physicians say the large amount of uncompensated care they provide has become a substantial cost of practicing emergency medicine, but we did not expect such a high percentage of free care.

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This study is one of the first to quantify the uncompensated care provided by Florida emergency physicians.

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The intensity of services required by sicker patients would result in higher average per patient charges and costs in the hospital's emergency department.

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