Hospitals say the updated charity care guidance, which would require facilities to offer subsidized care for patients regardless of residency, risks making the state a “medical tourism destination.” ...

Hospital bad debt and charity care rose 46% since 2023, with the Midwest up 81%, per Kaufman Hall's National Hospital Flash Report.

Years of rising operating profits and cash reserves did not translate to greater charity care across the nation’s nonprofit hospitals, according to a study published this week in Health Affairs. The ...

Nonprofit hospitals spent less on charity care for the uninsured compared to for-profit and government hospitals, a new study found. The study, published Monday in the journal Health Affairs, found ...

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 ...

Large for-profit hospitals spend more on charitable services as a percent of total expenses than their nonprofit counterparts, according to a study from researchers with the Harvard T.H. Chan School ...

The new Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Jason Smith (R-MO) recently held a hearing on charitable hospitals. The hearing continued a long bipartisan/bicameral interest of Congress in ...

The LSU Board of Supervisors is poised to give the last approval needed to clear the way for the redevelopment of Charity Hospital on Friday by signing off on a lease with developers who envision the ...