Safety Net Association of PA

You Set the Agenda

SNAP's agenda and positions are developed by its members: the leaders of hospitals whose interests are fundamentally the same as yours. If you have a seat at the table, you make these decisions.

Focused Advocacy

SNAP has only one purpose: to represent the needs of safety-net hospitals. We are highly focused; SNAP does not seek to be all things to all hospitals or to take the place of your other trade groups.

Medical malpractice? Not specifically a safety-net issue. I.T. issues? The resurrection of certificate of need? Other groups are addressing these issues for you.

On the other hand, inadequate Medical Assistance payments? Outdated DSH criteria? Unfair HealthChoices practices? Now those issues are why SNAP exists and those are the kinds of issues on which we focus. Concentrating on just a few issues makes us the best value in hospital advocacy in Pennsylvania today.

Your Issues Take Center Stage

Virtually every hospital has experienced the agony of having an association address a number of issues on its behalf - only to see that association abandon an issue that you thought was important in favor of one that mattered more to a greater number of its members. That does not happen with SNAP because our entire membership is built around just a few issues of interest to all of our members. If it matters to you, it matters to other safety-net hospitals, leaving us no need to compromise for a “greater good.”

Medical Assistance Reform: The Timing Will Never Be Better

Pennsylvania's Medical Assistance program is now undergoing its first comprehensive review in more than a decade. SNAP has a clear, concrete agenda and represents your best chance of getting what your hospital needs out of this process: a Medical Assistance program that is fundamentally fairer to safety-net hospitals like yours that bear a disproportionate share of the burden of caring for low-income Pennsylvanians.

When the state makes specific reform proposals, SNAP has an ability to analyze those proposals, and to pinpoint their potential effect on our members, that is unmatched in Pennsylvania. In addition, SNAP is making its own reform proposals - proposals driven by the needs of our members. The state is clearly looking to SNAP, and to no other group, to represent the interests of safety-net hospitals during this process, so we expect to be the most important, most influential, and most knowledgeable industry participants in these reform talks. We hope you choose to be part of the group that decides how we will exercise that influence and expertise.