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.

American Hospital Association

• Tax-Exempt Status
• Understanding the Issues

Healthcare Financial Management Association

• About the Medical Debt Resolution Best Practices
• Patient Friendly Billing Project
• 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)