Lagrange, GA · Likely required to offer financial assistance. This is a nonprofit hospital. Under IRC Section 501(r), nonprofit hospitals must have a written financial assistance policy and must limit what they charge patients who qualify for it.
Work out where your own household falls below — the figures move with household size.
| Share of the federal poverty level | What this hospital reported |
|---|---|
| 125% or less | Full write-off |
| 125–300% | Discounted |
| Above 300% | No published discount — ask about a payment plan |
Percentages are of the GA federal poverty guideline for your household size, which changes each year. The estimator below converts them into dollars.
Even above those cut-offs, qualifying caps your bill. Because this hospital is a nonprofit, federal law bars it from charging anyone it has determined eligible for assistance more than the amounts generally billed to insured patients for emergency and medically necessary care — never the full list price. That protection applies once you have applied and been found eligible, not automatically.
Hospital financial assistance is almost always based on household income compared with the federal poverty level. What you type stays in your browser — it is never sent to us or to anyone else.
An estimate from published figures, not a decision. Only the hospital can approve an application, and some policies also weigh savings, assets and residency.
You do not have to phone. Copy this, fill in the blanks, and send it to the billing office by post, email or the hospital’s patient portal.
Send it to financialassistanceapplications@wellstar.org, the address this hospital publishes for financial assistance. If your bill names a different address or a patient portal, use that instead — it is the one tied to your account.
That link was found on this hospital’s own website, checked 2026-08-11. We do not hold a billing address or a direct contact for it, so send the letter through the address or portal named on your bill, or ask the billing office where it should go.
Usually available regardless of income, and separate from financial assistance. Ask for one before agreeing to anything a collections agency offers, and ask for the cash or self-pay price — it is often well below the list price on the bill.
These charge on a sliding scale based on your household income, and see patients whether or not you have insurance. Call ahead to ask what a visit would cost.
No HRSA-listed health center within 15 miles.
These are volunteer and donation-funded clinics that treat uninsured patients free or for a small fee. They are not the same as the federally funded health centers above, and most keep limited hours — call before going.
Listed by the Georgia Charitable Care Network, checked 2026-11-01. GCCN’s directory is not exhaustive — member clinics can decline to be listed — so search theirs too if nothing here is close. *Distances marked with an asterisk are approximate: we could not place the street address exactly, so the distance is measured from the centre of its ZIP code.