Resources About Community Benefit & Economic Stability Project
Protect Consumers from Medical Debt
Especially during a pandemic, when people’s care-seeking behavior affects not just themselves, but also their loved ones, co-workers and community, we must remove all barriers to accessing health care.
Community Benefit and Economic Development
This fact sheet compares how “community benefit” is typically used in the economic development and healthcare contexts.
Hospital Financial Assistance Policies: A Quick Reference Guide [ Publication ]
HFMA Resource: Best Practices for Resolution of Medical Accounts [ Publication ]
Building Local Capacity to Engage Hospitals through Community Benefit: A Case Study
Follow the stories, successes, and challenges of three community-based organizations and coalitions as they build skills and partnerships with local hospitals to address social and economic challenges impacting the health of local residents.
Hospital Community Benefit Dashboard: Advancing Health Equity and Community Engagement
This dashboard outlines five core principles that hospital community benefit staff and community organizations can use to evaluate and strengthen current practices, with a focus on achieving health equity and meaningful community engagement.
Transforming Hospital Community Benefit: Increasing Community Engagement and Health Equity Investment in Connecticut
This paper seeks to inform state and local efforts to strengthen the connection between hospital community benefit programs and health equity investments in Connecticut.
Hospitals Investing in Health: Community Benefit in Massachusetts
Tax exempt non-profit hospitals around the country spend billions of dollars each year as part of their community benefit obligations. But do those investments really move the needle in improving community health?
What Does the Affordable Care Act Say about Hospital Bills?
This publication outlines the key elements of the final regulations related to patient billing—financial assistance, charges, billing and collections. It provides brief contextual insight into the policy issues the regulations seek to address.