CQC Nonprofit Hospital Scorecard: Connecticut Nonprofit Hospitals Earn a #HospitalFail

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Despite being tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals across the country are making big money at the expense of their patients. CQC developed the Connecticut Nonprofit Hospital Scorecard based on recent findings from the Lown Institute, Patient Rights Advocate, the Rand Corporation, and other credible and respected sources about troubling practices at hospitals in Connecticut. These practices are at odds with what the public expects from charitable organizations, especially since Connecticut nonprofit hospitals collectively receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks each year.

In response to these disturbing findings, Consumers for Quality Care (CQC) released the following statement:

“Connecticut’s nonprofit hospitals reap hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks each year, despite failing to uphold their missions as ‘charitable’ organizations. Most nonprofit hospitals in Connecticut are actually skimping on charity care and overcharging their patients, while failing to be fully transparent about the prices that they charge. The public deserves better. Nonprofit hospitals should be accountable to the communities that they serve, but in Connecticut, too often that simply isn’t the case.”

Visit CQC’s Nonprofit Hospital Scorecards here.