Safety Net Association of PA

I’m associated with a safety-net hospital. Why should we join SNAP?

Because Medical Assistance is absolutely critical to your hospital’s financial health and no other group is making your Medical Assistance reimbursement its first and only priority. When push comes to shove, general interest hospital organizations will always sacrifice your Medical Assistance interests for those of its other members. Why wouldn’t they? After all, safety-net hospitals constitute only one-third of the state’s acute-care hospitals, and have you ever heard of a general interest association advocating policy changes that would benefit one-third of its members at the possible expense of the other two-thirds? No one can reasonable expect that of a general hospital group – not even SNAP members expect it – and that’s why it’s so important to have an association that makes your Medical Assistance interests its first and only priority. As a member of SNAP, you play a direct role in deciding what issues the organization addresses, what positions it takes, and how it pursues its interests. Can you think of any broad-based associations that don’t leave you feeling like you take orders from them?

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