Every day, millions of people are forced to choose between their own health and their families’ financial well-being. For low- and moderate-income families, this is a painful choice.
A recent Health Affairs study on hospital profitability has been garnering national press attention for finding that seven of the “Top 10” most profitable hospitals were non-profits. These findings will likely reverberate in states where po... [ Blog ]
Project Director, Jessica Curtis, explains how the new rules nonprofit hospitals are now required to operate under is a win for low-income consumers. [ News Clip ]
Jessica Curtis, Hospital Accountability Project director, explains the importance of clear hospital charity care requirements under the Affordable Care Act. [ News Clip ]
Lately, we’ve seen a flood of states announcing new health insurance rates for plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). So what do they all mean? To start, the new rates are mainly for the individual market, for people who buy insurance on their own. [ Blog ]
Jessica Curtis, Hospital Accountability Project director, tells the Associated Press that hospitals continue to use unfair billing and debt collection practices, despite Affordable Care Act provisions. [ News Clip ]
Jessica Curtis, director of the Hospital Accountability Project, says a final rule and enforcement standards on how hospitals bill uninsured patients will mark significant progress in protecting uninsured patients and their pocketbooks. [ News Clip ]
With today’s blog we welcome back “The Insider,” Community Catalyst Policy Director Michael Miller, who will continue to provide an “inside out” perspective on major policy and political developments in the health policy arena. Though today’s blog is very [ Blog ]
Community Catalyst joined other advocates and a Massachusetts hospital official to talk about the need for hospitals to provide financial assistance to patients. [ News Clip ]
A report from Community Catalyst's Hospital Accountability Project partner shows some nonprofit hospitals in Marion County are not meeting their charitable missions; some are disregarding the law and IRS regulations. The Project calls for state officials [ News Clip ]
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new proposed rule that takes an important step toward ensuring that students who purchase a health plan through their university or college will be able to benefit from [ Blog ]
Is a few thousand dollars worth of health care coverage really insurance? Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) raised this question at a December 1 hearing appropriately entitled Are Mini-Med Policies Really Health Insurance? As chair of the Senate Commerce, Sc [ Blog ]
A survey conducted in Marion county, IN by two of our partners, Citizens Action Coalition Education Fund and Indiana Legal Services, Inc., shows that nearly half of hospital patients go into debt to pay their bills. [ News Clip ]
Community Catalyst’s Free Care Compendium summarizes the free care laws and regulations in each of the fifty states. The Compendium also includes national snapshot of regulatory and legislative trends across the states. [ Resource ]
Community Catalyst and other organizations weigh in with the IRS and Treasury on requirements for charitable hospitals that help patients address the financial toll hospital bills can take. [ Comment Letter ]
Community Catalyst, along with 56 other organizations, submitted comments regarding the community health needs assessment for tax-exempt hospitals to the Internal Revenue Service [ Comment Letter ]
This report from The Access Project and Community Catalyst show that many non-profit hospitals are not doing enough to meet AHA guidelines to have clear, written policies to help patients determine if they qualify for charity care and to make these polici [ Publication ]
The number of Americans paying more for health insurance policies that cover less has increased 60 percent since 2003. This report outlines the implications of the growing "underinsurance" problem, identifies two primary factors that put people at risk, [ Publication ]
This model act and commentary can serve as a baseline for policymakers and stakeholders as they develop legislation to establish standards and oversight procedures for hospital financial assistance programs. It can be used side-by-side with the interacti [ Publication ]
A report on the challenges uninsured and underinsured patients encounter in getting information about hospital financial assistance programs [ Publication ]
Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States.
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