Mass. hospitals provided $631M in community benefits in FY ’14

BOSTON – Massachusetts hospitals provided more than $631 million in community benefits for state residents in fiscal 2014, according to Attorney General Maura Healey’s office.

Forty-nine nonprofit, acute care hospitals reported a total of $577 million in community-benefit expenditures, of which $58.7 million was reported for free or discounted care provided directly to patients. Additionally, 11 for-profit hospitals reported more than $54.1 million in community-benefit expenditures, $9.2 million of which was reported as free or discounted care for patients.

The state’s Community Benefits Guidelines encourage hospitals and HMOs to build upon their commitment to address unmet community health needs by formalizing their approach to planning for annual benefits, collaborating with community representatives in developing programs and filing annual reports with the attorney general’s office.

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