WASHINGTON – Despite being tax-exempt, nonprofit hospitals around the country are engaging in practices that put profits over patients. Recent findings from reports from the National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP) and North Carolina State Health Plan and PatientRightsAdvocate.org reveal North Carolina nonprofit hospital practices that are at odds with what the public expects from charitable hospitals, such as a lack of price transparency and aggressive collection practices.

A statement from Consumers for Quality Care (CQC) reads: “In North Carolina, nonprofit hospitals must uphold their end of the bargain when it comes to serving their communities. By utilizing predatory billing tactics and not complying with federal price transparency regulations, many of the state’s hospitals are not doing everything they can to help patients in need. We urge these nonprofits to put people before profits and work to better serve all North Carolinians.”