Run a hospital? Check your page and verify it.
Patients use these pages to decide whether to apply for financial assistance. If your page is wrong or thin, they may not apply. Verifying it is free.
What patients see for your hospital
- Your income cutoffs, in dollars. Free care and discount limits for each household size.
- The source. A link to your policy, a short quote from it, and the date we checked it.
- How to apply. Your phone number, your application form and the documents to bring, when we have them.
A hospital can’t pay to change what its page says. Every number needs a source, such as the hospital’s own policy, its IRS filing, or a state program.
How to claim your page
- Find your page through your state's list.
- Email us from your hospital email address with a link to your current financial assistance policy and anything that needs fixing.
- We check the policy, update the page and mark it verified with the date.
Write to verify@hospitalaid.org. We do not accept payment to change what a policy says, and we do not show ads.
What verified means
A verified page has every income level, deadline and document list checked against your hospital's current written policy. Each fact on the page links to the policy and quotes the line it came from, with the date we checked it.
Pages carry one of three labels.
- Verified from the hospital's own policy. We read your policy and checked each fact.
- From the hospital's IRS filing. The income levels come from your Form 990 Schedule H for a given tax year. They may be out of date.
- Only the legal baseline. We have not found your income levels yet. These pages are kept out of search results until they have real numbers.