The dispensaries would have been required to provide the drug to indigent patients for free.

Not only indigent patients will be affected by the new regulation.

Drug company representatives argue that the free samples can be given to indigent patients.

About 24,000 indigent patients are buried there, most without visible markers.

Hospital officials say state reimbursements for treatment of indigent patients is inadequate.

The institute then stopped accepting new indigent patients and laid off 26 of its 175 workers.

The law was passed to protect indigent patients from being denied treatment.

They said he sometimes saw homeless or indigent patients for nothing.

Those changes could result in increased numbers of indigent patients who seek health care.

Hospital officials announced in March that they would have to to stop admitting indigent patients because the costs were far greater than had been expected.