Financial aspects of the provision of care to AIDS patients at Hartford Hospital.

Data on the provision of care to persons with AIDS at Hartford Hospital are presented for the years 1988 and 1989. Approximately 2% of the total operating loss from uncompensated care at the hospital was due to patients with AIDS during both of those years. While the hospital continues to show a net surplus of revenues over expenses, the operating loss incurred by the hospital for the provision of care to hospitalized case-definition AIDS patients increased by 88.1% between 1988 and 1989.