11.   Other hospitals say Columbia is dumping indigent patients on them.

12.   Part of the payment also covers the cost of using teaching hospitals and facilities that treat many indigent patients.

13.   Public, nonprofit hospitals expect to see a swelling number of indigent patients.

14.   The rates are set high enough to cover not only the cost of treating insured patients, but also the cost of treating indigent patients and training residents.

15.   The purpose of the payments in question is to help hospitals that serve large numbers of indigent patients.

16.   The suit, filed by Attorney General Grant Woods, is designed to recover money the state has spent to treat indigent patients with tobacco-related illnesses.

17.   The surgeon, Dr. Andrew Seltzer, says he takes care of an indigent patient without insurance every day.

18.   The week before the anniversary, Maryn McKenna spent a day with him while he treated indigent AIDS patients in a county clinic.

19.   They assume that the federal government will reduce or eliminate special payments to hospitals serving disproportionate numbers of indigent patients.

20.   They would also reduce special payments to hospitals that train doctors or serve large numbers of indigent patients.