Position Papers

SNAP periodically takes positions on issues of importance to safety-net hospitals and the communities they serve.

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2009:

• Making Medical Assistance Hospital Payment Policy in Pennsylvania:
  A Broken Process in Need of Fixing – May 2009

2007

• Counting “Bad Debt” Toward Hospitals' Community Benefit Requirements – April 2007
• Why Margins are Inadequate Measures of Hospital Financial Performance - April 2007

2004

• Presumptive Eligibility for Participants in Pennsylvania's Adult Basic Insurance Program - May 2004

2002

• Raising the Hospital-Specific Medicaid Disproportionate Share Upper Limit for Pennsylvania's Safety-Net Hospitals - November 2002

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