Resources About Community Benefit and Community Engagement
RESUMEN DE LOS DERECHOS DEL PACIENTE EN EL MARCO DE LA LEY SIN SORPRESAS (NSA) Y SUS CORRESPONDIENTES NORMAS FINALES PROVISIONALES
Consulte esta tabla que resume los derechos de los pacientes bajo la Ley No Sorpresas, que evitaría que los pacientes reciban una factura médica sorpresa de un proveedor que no está en su red de seguro médico.
Summary of Patients' Rights Under The No Surprises Act and Its Related Final Rules
Check out this table which summarizes patients' rights under the No Surprises Act (NSA), which would prevent patients from receiving a surprise medical bill from a provider that is not in their health insurance network.
The American Rescue Plan Act: Organizing Opportunities
This toolkit illustrates how advocates can leverage American Rescue Plan Act funds to spur transformative change and address the unique needs of communities.
Congress Can Remove Barriers Immigrants Face in Accessing Health Care
Immigrants must wait 5 years before they can enroll in federally funded programs, such as Medicaid and CHIP. Here's how Congress can remove this barrier for lawfully present immigrants.
Video: Voices for Health Justice
A project that is working to collaboratively create policies that help communities of color, low-income people, immigrants, people in rural communities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people thrive, through grassroots coalitions in 24 states.
Principles for Improving Community Economic Stability Through Hospital Billing Policies
Five principles to guide consumer advocacy efforts in campaigns to ensure that hospital policies promote economic security and preserve access to care for all.
ALERT: Affordability is the Next Frontier
Check out our new affordability messaging
Make Coverage Affordable for the Long Term
The American Rescue Plan's enhancements are critical to help individuals and families’ secure health access during the pandemic and are a needed correction to the ACA subsidy scale and must be made permanent.
ALERT: Speak up NOW on the state of health care
Tomorrow night’s state of the union marks the first time President Biden will speak to Congress. Our job is to remind the Biden administration and policymakers that health care is central to infrastructure – and the time to be bold is now.
Making Convenient Care the Right Care for All: Improving State Oversight of Urgent Care Centers and Retail Health Clinics
This brief looks at oversight of "convenient care" clinics and considers whether they are serving a fair share of low-income or uninsured consumers and are providing an appropriate array of services, including urgent reproductive and sexual health care.
Strengthening our Response: A Series to Inform an Equitable Policy Response [ Publication ]
Policy Principles to Guide Health Care’s Role in Social Interventions
This document lays out 10 principles to guide efforts in the health care sphere to address the social and economic determinants of poor health in ways that elevate and support patients and communities -- critical to achieving health justice.
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.
Letter to the IRS on Social and Economic Determinants of Health and Hospital Community Benefit
Community Catalyst’s comment letter to the IRS that supports revising the Form 990 Schedule H so that “community health improvement services” include efforts to address the social and economic determinants of health — including housing.
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.
Community Benefit: Tools and Resources to Get Involved with Non-profit Hospitals to Address Unmet Community Health Needs
These resources will provide some initial guidance to advocates and community-based organizations as they navigate through the community benefit planning process that non-profit hospitals are required to undertake in exchange for their tax-exempt status.
Free Care Compendium
Community Catalyst’s Free Care Compendium summarizes the free care laws and regulations in each of the fifty states. The Compendium also includes national snapshot of regulatory and legislative trends across the states.
Testimony to the Massachusetts Public Health Council Regarding the Determination of Need for the Transfer of Ownership of the Caritas Christi Hospitals
Community Catalyst testified about the proposed sale of the nonprofit Caritas Christi hospital system to a for-profit entity, recommending additional conditions be attached to its approval.
Summary of Hospital Accountability Provisions in National Health Reform
This outlines the provisions in national health care reform focused on non-profit hospitals, and how advocates can engage in making them effective.
Comments to IRS on Draft Instructions to Form 990, Schedule H
A response to the proposed guidance on completing Schedule H, the new tax form nonprofit hospitals must file to describe their free care and community benefit activities