Hospital financial
assistance & debt
collection policies
A national data set
2025 BLASR
Learn more about our most recent winner of the Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility, Dr. Reshma Ramachandran!
Making hospital
tax breaks work
for communities
An analysis of 20 states
2024 Shkreli Awards
A top ten list of the worst examples of healthcare profiteering and dysfunction each year
Back surgery overuse
200,000 unnecessary procedures at a cost of $2 billion to Medicare
Avoiding Overuse: Coronary Stents
How professional inertia harms patients and wastes billions of dollars
America’s Most Racially Inclusive Hospitals
Socially responsible hospitals serve everyone in their communities.
Pay Equity
How much should we pay nonprofit hospital CEOs? What are we rewarding them for — and what metrics could we base their salaries on instead?
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REGISTER: America’s Most Socially Responsible Hospitals, 2025
Register now for the webinar "America's Most Socially Responsible Hospitals" on June 25, 2025. More
“Only a movement will get us to a better future.”: Dr. Reshma Ramachandran accepts the 2025 Bernard Lown Award
Dr. Lilia Cervantes received the 2025 Bernard Lown Award for Social Responsibility for her exceptional work promoting equitable access to medicines, mobilizing physicians nationwide to challenge pharmaceutical industry influence, and advancing legislative reforms that prioritize the public’s health over corporate profit. More
PRESS RELEASE: Inconsistent Hospital Policies Put Patients at Greater Risk of Medical Debt
Analysis of 2,500 charity care policies finds patients with identical income and medical needs could receive free care at one hospital, yet face collections or lawsuits at another. More