Community Benefit

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health provides care to anyone, regardless of their financial means or insurance coverage. The following summary describes our cost during our last fiscal year to provide healthcare services to people with little or no ability to pay.

LG Health also provided more than $92 million in care that was not reimbursed by Medicare (not considered "Community Benefit") Total based on actual cost of care.

$3m

Community programs and outreach

$10m

Charity care

$10m

Education of future physicians and health professionals

$70m

Medical Assistance subsidy (Medicaid)

$93m

Total Community Benefit*

*Financial figures based on Lancaster General Health's fiscal year, which started July 1, 2018, and ended June 30, 2019. All items listed as community benefit and based on categories, definitions and reporting guidelines outlined in "Guidelines and Standard Definitions for the Community" published by the Catholic Health Association of the United States and VHA Inc.