Financial Assistance
Bozeman Health is committed to providing emergency and medically necessary care to patients who are uninsured or have limited insurance. You may qualify for financial assistance if you are unable to pay your bill or if paying it would result in financial hardship.
Bozeman Health's FirstSource program employs a patient-care advocate to assist uninsured patients whose medical bills exceed a certain amount. The FirstSource advocate may contact you if your hospital visit qualifies for assistance. Our goal is to match qualified patients with funding sources such as Medicaid, Social Security or other programs.
Our financial assistance program can help patients who have incomes at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), are underinsured or are insured and have family income under 400% of the FPL.
Documents
- Financial Assistance Policy—English
- Financial Assistance Policy Plain Language Summary—English
- Financial Assistance Application—English
- Financial Assistance Brochure—English
- Política de asistencia financiera
- Política de asistencia financiera Resumen en lenguaje sencillo
- Solicitud de asistencia financiera
- Folleto de asistencia financiera
Amount Generally Billed
If a patient is determined to qualify for financial assistance under this policy, the patient's billed charges will be no more than the same Amounts Generally Billed (AGB) for emergency or other Medically Necessary Health Care Services as patients who have insurance coverage.
AGB Percentage
Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center's and Big Sky Medical Center's AGB percentage is 67.4% of gross charges for inpatient and outpatient services.
This percentage is based on all claims allowed for Bozeman Health's emergency and other medically necessary inpatient and outpatient services by Medicare, Medicaid and private payers over a 12-month period divided by the associated gross charges for those claims.
LOOK-BACK PERIOD
The 12-month look-back measurement period currently in effect is July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. This AGB will be applied starting as of October 1, 2022 and continuing September 30, 2023.
Monto generalmente facturado - Español
Si se determina que un paciente califica para recibir asistencia financiera según esta política, los cargos facturados del paciente no serán más de los mismos montos generalmente facturados (Amounts Generally Billed, AGB) para servicios de emergencia u otros de atención médica médicamente necesarios que los pacientes que tienen cobertura de seguro.
Porcentaje de AGB
El porcentaje de AGB de Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center y Big Sky Medical Center es del 67,4 % de los cargos brutos por servicios para pacientes hospitalizados y ambulatorios.
Este porcentaje se basa en todos los reclamos permitidos para los servicios de emergencia y otros servicios médicamente necesarios para pacientes hospitalizados y ambulatorios de Bozeman Health por parte de Medicare, Medicaid y pagadores privados durante un período de 12 meses dividido por los cargos brutos asociados para esos reclamos.
PERÍODO DE RETROSPECTIVA
El período de medición retrospectiva de 12 meses actualmente vigente es del 1 de julio de 2021 al 30 de junio de 2022. Estos AGB se aplicarán a partir del 1 de octubre de 2022 y continuará hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2023.
Bozeman Health Providers Covered by Financial Assistance
The following providers are all supported under Bozeman Health's Financial Assistance Policy.
- Bozeman Health Cancer Center
- Bozeman Health ER Physicians
- Bozeman Health Hospitalist Physicians
- Bozeman Health Medical Group
- Bozeman Health Deaconess Regional Medical Center
- Audiology Clinic (specific services apply)
- Belgrade Clinic
- Cardiology Clinic
- Diabetes and Nutrition Center
- Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic
- Endocrinology Clinic
- Family Medicine Clinic
- GI Clinic
- Infectious Disease and Travel Medicine Clinic
- Internal Medicine Clinic
- Maternal - Fetal Medicine
- Neonatology
- Nephrology Clinic
- Neuroscience Center
- Pain Clinic
- Palliative Care Consultants
- Pediatric Clinic
- Pediatric Specialty Clinic
- Pediatric Clinic at Belgrade Clinic
- Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Clinic
- Rheumatology Clinic
- Surgery Clinic
- Tele-psychiatry
- University of Utah - remote EEG reads (adult and pediatric)
- Urology Clinic
- Vein & Surgical Clinic
- Women's Specialists Clinic
- Wound Clinic and Hyperbaric Center
- Bozeman Health Big Sky Medical Center
- Bozeman Health Belgrade Clinic
- Bozeman Health Same Day Surgery Center
- Bozeman Health Clinical Research
- Bozeman Health Cottonwood Clinic
Any other physician or provider of care at Bozeman Health not listed above is not subject to the Financial Assistance Policy.