Lawsuits pile up for unpaid hospital care
The UVA Medical Center sees around 700,000 patients a year. Many of them rack up significant bills, and while some are paid primarily by insurance, others are not.
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Lawsuits pile up for unpaid hospital care
Health system spent $142M last year for indigent care
The UVA Medical Center sees around 700,000 patients a year. Many of them rack up significant bills, and while some are paid primarily by insurance, others are not.
Break a chance to secure the halls
It was just what the UVA Facilities Management needed: a little peace and quiet to do some drilling and hammer banging in New Cabell Hall. Just days before Christmas, and with the student holiday exodus complete, the building’s halls filled with the racket of renovation. Doorways like this one in New Cabell Hall will have […]
Ink goes dry on another print pub
What began in 1971 as The University Register ended on December 7 as Inside UVA. The University’s print-edition PR vehicle ceased publication last month when the last 14,500 copies rolled off the press, ending its 36-year run. In the middle of the front page, surrounded by stories about hydrogen-storage materials, equitable compensation and a photo […]
What's in your backpack?
Sarah Kott Year: Junior Age: 21Major: Architecture Hometown: Sterling, VirginiaBackpack contents: Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, Sun Chips, stamps, Florian Henckel’s The Lives of Others, protractor, tape measure, notebook
Previous coverage revisited
After Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule over the country November 3, we ran a Q&A with politics professor John Echeverri-Gent, who discussed, among other things, the response of the U.S. to the situation. "If we were to take a stand condemning Musharraf’s action, at least that would separate us from supporting an increasingly […]
NCAA College Hoops 2K8; March Madness 2008
I like to call it stick shock. If you play any of 2K Sports' basketball offerings, then you've grown used to the fact that the right analog stick is used to shoot the ball…
A collection of local skateboard photography
art Skate culture is one of the most overlooked folk-art traditions, but also one of the most popular; it’s alternately marginalized and heavily commercialized, and has remained one of America’s most significant underground cultural movements for over 30 years. Later, skaters: Black Cat Skateshop decks the walls with photos spanning the history of local skateboarding […]
Other News We Heard Last Week
Tuesday, December 25 Former UVA coach’s team beats Maryland Ten years after being fired as UVA’s men’s basketball coach, Jeff Jones is celebrated in a John Feinstein column in today’s Washington Post. On December 22, Jones’ current team—American University—traveled the short distance from their home in northwest Washington, D.C. to Maryland’s Comcast Center, where they […]
From the inside out
For weekly newspaper writers, commenting on the news is generally limited to an occasional jab or quip. And even in subjective columns and reviews, sweeping ideas that come more from the heart than the mind are left by the wayside. That's all well and good. But for the first issue of 2008, we wanted to do something different: a year in review with a completely personal touch.
Deeds explains early election launch
There is little doubt Democrats are riding a wave of success in Virginia, one that began in 2001 with the election of Mark Warner as Governor and which crested, most recently, with the party's 2007 General Assembly gains.