I want, by Noon Pacific Time on Thursday, July 10, a copy of the
documents referred to in the excerpt from the Wall Street Journal
article copied below: the American Hospital Association's "alert" to
hospital execs, including the cover memo and three-page memo that was
issued on June 10, 2003, regarding hospital billings to uninsured
patients.

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Hospitals Urged to End Harsh Tactics for Billing Uninsured 
By Lucette Lagnado 
7 July 2003
The Wall Street Journal
FACING A GROWING public backlash, the hospital industry is weighing
fundamental changes in the way it bills and collects payments from
needy patients who have little or no health insurance.
The American Hospital Association, an industry trade group, dispatched
an "Alert" on June 10 to the chief executives of 4,800 hospitals
across the U.S., as well as every state hospital association. It
suggested they perform the equivalent of an "audit" of their billing,
charity-care and debt-collection practices.
The Alert, including a cover letter from the AHA's president and a
three-page memo, warns of increased media scrutiny of how hospitals
bill the uninsured and notes that a congressional committee "has
expressed a high level of concern...."

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Request for Question Clarification by voila-ga on 10 Jul 2003 10:44 PDT

Hello zoon,

Here is some peripheral information you may or may not have.  I do
hope a researcher in the PTZ is able to come up with the memo.  Is the
information still valuable to you once the noon deadline has passed?

http://cahionline.org/cgi-data/industry/files/54.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/gk6w (redirect to article in Chicago Sun Times)

Regards, 
V

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Clarification of Question by zoon-ga on 10 Jul 2003 12:01 PDT

v -

yes, the information I've requested is valuable to me past Noon today,
therefore, I will extend the deadline to Noon PDT on Monday.  FYI -
the chicago sun times link you sent me is simply a reprint of the WSJ
article i sited in the original request.

7-11-2003

You might have better luck getting this information from a state
hospital association or from a hospital executive, since it is
probably considered a private document not really meant for
publication and therefore it is a little bit unlikely that there would
be an online source that is posting it over the Internet.

KEITH (I'm NOT a GOOGLE Researcher)