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My comments in @SarinaTrangle’s story @Newsday Stony Brook suing hundreds of patients over medical debt Yet, Stony Brook seems to have a relatively small financial aid or charity care program. Its charity care amounted to 0.5% of its operating expense budget in 2021, according to the most recent hospital provider cost report available through the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a federal agency that runs public insurance programs and oversees the health sector. That’s less than its peers, according to Ge Bai, an accounting and health policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. Government-run hospitals in New York State put a median of 1.8% of expenses toward charity care; their counterparts nationwide, 0.9%, said Bai, whose research measured charitable benefits using the same approach taken by the Internal Revenue Service, the agency that oversees nonprofits. @JHUCarey @JohnsHopkinsSPH @BSPH_HPM @JohnsHopkins newsday.com/amp/business/s…