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CLEVELAND — A new report says nonprofit hospitals like the Cleveland Clinic aren’t doing enough to give back to the communities around them – a claim the industry is pushing back on.
A big part of the disagreement centers on shortfalls from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for low-income Americans. There’s a gap between what the government pays for Medicaid care and the higher amounts that hospitals charge for those services. In its most recent community benefits report, released in December, the Clinic said it spent more than $600 million on care for Medicaid patients in 2022. That accounted for almost 43% of the Clinic’s total community benefits for the year across Ohio, Florida and Nevada.
“I think all hospitals throughout the country need to be focusing more outside the walls of the hospital,” he said. “When I think of community benefit, I think of community – and the community is outside the walls of the hospital.” The Clinic’s main campus is the only Ohio hospital on the Lown Institute’s top-10 list of facilities with the largest community-spending deficits. But the report said 95% of Ohio’s hospitals are taking more than they give.
The healthcare provider said it invested $531 million in the community in 2022. That figure includes $285 million in Medicaid underpayments, according to tax records. UH's statement mentioned research, education, training and both free and discounted care, along with food programs, maternal and prenatal education and vaccination clinics.
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