Resources for Financial Assistance

Use these resources from outside organizations to enhance your knowledge of tax exempt status and guide your work on effective, patient-friendly billing policies. Also see IHA's Price Transparency resources. Additional hospital financial assistance resources and data reporting requirements can be found here.

Office of the Attorney General

• Hospital Financial Assistance Report form

Healthcare Financial Management Association

• Avoiding Surprises in Your Medical Bills: A Guide for Consumers
• HFMA Price Transparency Task Force Report
• HFMA Understanding Healthcare Prices: A Consumer Guide
• Principles & Practices Board Statements and Publications: See Statement 15 under P& P Board Statments—"Valuation and Financial Statement Presentation of Charity Care and Bad Debts by Institutional Healthcare Providers"

HelpHub

• Sponsored by Shriver National Center on Poverty Law: resource providing enrollment information including SNAP (formerly food stamps)