Sharp healthcare: a smarter plan to help the uninsured.

Sharp HealthCare partnered with a not-for-profit patient advocacy organization to develop a tool for determining its self-pay patients' eligibility to receive healthcare coverage. Under the partnership, Sharp has made a "health coverage eligibility quiz" developed by the not-for-profit available to patients, which patients can use to obtain a personalized list of healthcare coverage options. Hospitals that adopt a similar program may find that a high percentage of self-pay accounts that had previously represented lost revenue are actually eligible to be covered under various government and other programs for uninsured patients.