Consumer Health Advocacy Information Network

09/16/2025

Comprehensive Report Cites MA Hospital Among Worst Charitable “Taker” Hospitals

The widely respected Lown Institute highlighted which ‘non-profit’ hospitals make the most in tax benefits and give the least in charitable care.

MA’s Mass General Brigham hospital system is among the ten worst ‘takers’, taking in more than $461m in tax breaks than it gives in charity care.

Our most vulnerable patients pay the price for this mass abuse of so-called non-profit tax status. Tax break monies are supposed to go to charity care, not fatten hospital profits.

Let’s Work Toward Fairer Healthcare Together

Of 2,425 nonprofit hospitals evaluated, 80% spent less on financial assistance and community investment than the estimated value of their tax breaks

09/15/2025

Welcome to CHAIN. We are now taking action in Massachusetts! The fight against unfair medical debt is real. Bay State families - especially those of color - face unfair treatment from mega hospitals while the same hospitals get millions in tax breaks that are supposed to help care for low-income patients.

Join with us to get fairer health care together. Complete our survey below and post your story here on our page. We want to hear from patients and families struggling to pay medical bills and get the assistance from hospitals they deserve.

Welcome Massachusetts! We are thrilled to launch our first Massachusetts public information campaign highlighting the damage caused by medical debt and rising hospital costs. Bay Staters can voice their concerns by taking our medical debt survey here. And check out our page to watch ads now...

04/23/2025

Rap Artist Fat Joe Fights for Hospital Transparency & Patient Rights

Grammy-nominated artist Fat Joe joins Michael Kosta to talk about his advocacy for transparent healthcare pricing with the organization Power to the Patients...

04/23/2025

Reigning in Unchecked Drug Middlemen is a Life or Death Matter

A bill at the Colorado Legislature would hold pharmacy benefit managers accountable and rein in the sky-high costs of prescription drugs.

04/23/2025

LBTQ/HIV Communities Call for Lower Drug Prices and 340B Reform

Colorado has a history of standing up for vulnerable communities, but a lack of transparency in the massive drug program threatens that commitment.

04/23/2025

Working Families Pummeled by Abuse of Drug Discounts

In Colorado, working families are being squeezed at the pharmacy counter while large billion-dollar hospital systems are exploiting a program designed to help patients and under-served communities. The tremendous growth

04/23/2025

Diversion of Drug Discounts for the Poor

There is bipartisan agreement that a federal program aimed at providing cheaper prescriptions is critical but also broken. At the Colorado Capitol, there are dueling bipartisan bills on how to fix it.

03/26/2025

Mayo Clinic Press launches new consumer health and wellness podcast portfolio!

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-press-launches-new-consumer-health-and-wellness-podcast-portfolio/

Mayo Clinic Press launches consumer health and wellness podcast portfolio, offering insight on a broad spectrum of health topics.

03/24/2025

Learn more about how billions of dollars meant to improve patient care isn’t reaching those most in need. (Partner Content)

03/21/2025

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital’s patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.

03/19/2025

Through a government program aimed at helping low-income patients, some hospitals buy medications at reduced prices. They can sell them to patients and their insurers for much more.

03/18/2025

The Colorado Legislature is considering a bill that could be the most impactful one introduced in the last several years to help give lower income patients access to affordable medication, and we like it!!

SB-124 requires non-profit hospitals to use the dollars they get through the Federal 340B program to decrease the out-of-pocket costs for low-income patients. That's exactly what that Federal program was suppose to do, and this bill reinforces the intent and ends the fraud that has overtaken it.

Thank you to the two Republican and two Democrat legislators that came together for the good of the consumer. Barbara Kirkmeyer Julie Gonzales . Kyle Brown Garcia Brown

If you know any of the Senators on the Health & Human Services Committee, please urge them to pass this bill out of Committee so that we consumers can more easily join the conversation.