Not-for-profit hospitals with the healthiest finances provide disproportionately less free care to the uninsured and underinsured, according to new research, writes Modern Healthcare.
Hospitals that are exempt from income, property and sales taxes reaped $47.9 billion in net income in 2017, offering $9.7 billion in charity care to the uninsured and $4.5 billion in charity care for the insured who needed help covering their bills and deductibles, according to an analysis of 2,563 of not-for-profit hospitals published in JAMA.
Read more:
- Modern Healthcare: https://www.modernhealthcare.com/providers/top-not-profit-hospitals-offer-disproportionately-less-charity-care-study-finds
- Charity Care Provision by US Nonprofit Hospitals. JAMA Internal Medicine. February 17, 2020
More on this topic:
Healthcare Dive: Richer not-for-profit hospitals less generous with charity care, JAMA analysis finds – https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/richer-not-for-profit-hospitals-less-generous-with-charity-care-jama-analy/572423/