Advisory Opinion 11-01
Concerning a network of pediatric charity hospitals plan to: (1) begin billing third-party payers, including Federal health care programs, for services rendered, and waive all cost-sharing amounts without regard to patients' financial need; (2) adopt a new financial need-based policy of providing lodging assistance, in limited circumstances, to patients, including Federal health care program beneficiaries, and their families; and (3) adopt a new financial need-based policy of providing transportation assistance, in limited circumstances, to patients, including Federal health care program beneficiaries, and their families.