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Mission

Patients for Hospital Accountability

In exchange for providing support to their communities, nonprofit hospitals receive substantial federal and state benefits, including exemption from taxation. But all too often their community benefit is falling flat. Patients for Hospital Accountability (PHA) believes the role of nonprofit hospitals is to provide quality, affordable healthcare to their communities.

PHA believes nonprofit hospitals need to be transparent and accountable, and our mission is to raise awareness with policymakers that will lead to meaningful reform.

According to the WSJ:

Nonprofit charitable organizations, which comprise the majority of hospitals in the U.S., wrote off in aggregate 2.3% of their patient revenue on financial aid for patients’ medical bills. ^[1]

Their for-profit competitors, a category including publicly traded giants such as HCA Healthcare Inc., wrote off 3.4%, the Journal found, in an analysis of the most-recent annual reports hospitals file with the federal government. ^[1]

The value of nonprofit hospitals’ subsidy from avoiding taxes is more than $60 billion a year, according to estimates by Johns Hopkins University professor Gerard Anderson. ^[1]

Federal law requires nonprofit hospitals to have policies to assist such patients. But federal guidelines allow them broad freedom to write and implement those policies and don’t require hospitals to meet any specific targets for financial assistance totals. ^[1]

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According to Non-profit Quarterly:

Nonprofit hospitals have been doing extremely well in the past few years, with an average net asset growth of 23.6% in the past year. ^[2]

Study Finds 45 Percent of Patients who Qualify for Charity Care Are Billed Anyway ^[2]

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Resources

Read more about what’s been going on in non-profit hospitals across the nation and learn more about how you can take action.

More than 80% of nonprofit hospitals and health care systems spend less on charity care and community investment than the amount they receive through their tax breaks as nonprofit institutions