Utah's not-for-profit king crowned again over status.(Intermountain Health Care Inc. drops medicaid)(Brief Article)

Modern Healthcare, July, 2002 by Benko, Laura B.

Underscoring growing public demand for charitable institutions to prove their worth, Utah's largest not-for-profit healthcare provider has come under fire once again for acting too much like a for-profit organization.

Intermountain Health Care, Salt Lake City, rankled consumer groups this month when it announced plans to shutter its money-losing Medicaid HMO by year-end, forcing 42,000 low-income residents to seek new medical coverage. The 22-hospital integrated health system similarly drew criticism in 1999 when it pulled out of the Medicare HMO market after only two years of insuring the elderly and disabled.

Intermountain's latest decision, some say, is a black eye for the health system, whose commitment to the community has been repeatedly...

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