Healing Grove Charity Care
Healing Grove Health Center provides charity care to families that meet the application requirements listed below (per our IRS application). Unfortunately, the need is greater than we are able to meet. At this time, our charity care panel is full. Patients interested in charity care that meet the requirements listed below may call us in order to to be placed on a wait list. As more concierge patients are enrolled, our charity care panel will reopen to accept more low income uninsured patients.
Healing Grove Charity Care Policy
As per Healing Grove’s IRS application, the following requirements are required in order to qualify for a reduced fee charity care membership.
- Provide evidence showing that one or more family members are uninsured (note that emergency Medi-Cal is not insurance).
- Provide documentation showing that the family qualifies as Extremely Low Income (ELI) by HUD definition ($49,700 for a family of four in 2021)
- Enrollment priority is given to people who live in one of the following low income census tracts with a high rate of uninsured people near HGHC:
5017, 5018, 5031.12, 5031.13, 5031.22, 5016 (a map of the area is available here) - Reduced fee member families must commit to make HGHC their family’s primary care providers (e.g. they will not seek care from multiple different clinics).
Reasons for Denial
HGHC may deny requests for Charity Care for a variety of reasons including, but not limited to:
Patient does not meet Eligibility requirements outlined above.
Too many reduced fee members are already enrolled in the practice.
In order to provide excellent care in line with our mission, each HGHC provider is limited to 300 paying members and 600 reduced fee members.
Annual Reports and Financial Statements:
Other policies and required disclosures
For informational purposes only, a link to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments web page is provided here. The federal Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires that detailed information about payment and other payments of value worth over ten dollars ($10) from manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, and biologics to physicians and teaching hospitals be made available to the public.
The Open Payments database is a federal tool used to search payments made by drug and device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals. It can be found at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.