https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/hospital-charity-care-how-it-works-and-why-it-matters/
"According to our analysis of hospital cost reports, charity care costs represented 1.4 percent or less of operating expenses at half of all hospitals in 2020..."
"Recent research has found that for-profit hospitals devote a similar share of their operating expenses to charity care as government hospitals on average and a larger or similar share as nonprofit hospitals."
"This may seem counterintuitive because, unlike for-profit hospitals, nonprofit hospitals receive large tax-breaks which are, in part, intended to subsidize the charity care that they provide."
"Among potential explanations for this result, for-profit hospitals may have a greater willingness to provide charity care in some scenarios because they can take a tax deduction for these expenses, and it is possible that some nonprofit hospitals may not expect significant oversight of their charity care practices from government regulators."