Do big nonprofit hospitals spend more on charity care than for-profits? This study says no
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 of Public Health in Boston.
Charity care is the unbilled and uncollected expenses that hospitals write off for patients who can’t pay for services. To evaluate charity care spending across similar for-profit and nonprofit hospitals, researchers paired for-profit hospitals with nonprofit hospitals that are similar in size, location and teaching status.
