Healthcare Finance News September 30, 2022
Restrictions in charity care and unclear eligibility criteria are still common and deserve regulatory attention, authors say.
About 84% of nonprofit hospitals updated their charity care policies from 2019 to 2021, during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic, and according to findings published in JAMA Network Open, these updated policies resulted in mostly positive changes.
However, restrictions in charity care and unclear eligibility criteria are still common and deserve regulatory attention, authors found.
Overall, 127 of 170 hospitals in the sample made substantial changes to their charity care policies, with 242 distinct policy changes in categories such as income eligibility cutoffs, asset limitations and service exclusions.
While most hospitals expanded charity care, a statistically significant minority, almost 8%, actually...
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