Financial Assistance Discount (Sliding Scale)
A hospital financial assistance discount from its own sliding scale.
Open the tool → Runs in your browser. Data leaves only if you deliberately send a problem report from the interactive tool.
Example
- Household size
- 3
- Annual household income
- 70000 USD
- Where the household lives
- The 48 contiguous states and DC
- Guideline year
- 2026
- Gross charges
- 20000 USD
- Tier 1: income up to
- 200
- Tier 1: discount
- 100
- Tier 2: income up to
- 300
- Tier 2: discount
- 75
- Hospital AGB percentage
- 20
Result: 256.2% of the poverty line falls in the tier up to 300%: a 75% discount, so the patient owes $4,000.00 of $20,000.00, capped at AGB (20% of charges).
The tool opens with these values already filled in. Replace them with your own.
What you enter
- Household size
- Annual household income
- Where the household lives
- Guideline year (blank for this year)
- Gross charges
- Tier 1: income up to (% of poverty)
- Tier 1: discount (%)
- Tier 2: income up to (% of poverty)
- Tier 2: discount (%)
- Tier 3: income up to (% of poverty)
The other 2 fields
- Tier 3: discount (%)
- Hospital AGB percentage
How this is calculated
Citation
The hospital's own financial assistance tiers (reader input) applied to income as a percent of the HHS poverty guidelines; 26 CFR 1.501(r)-5: an eligible patient may not be charged more than amounts generally billed. Read the source ↗
A reference and educational tool. Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a substitute for clinician judgment.