Nashville, GA · May offer charity care. This is a government-owned hospital. It isn't bound by the federal nonprofit rule (IRC 501(r)), but many public hospitals have their own charity-care obligations under state or local law.
Only 501(c)(3) hospitals report their poverty-level thresholds to the IRS, and not every filing can be matched to the hospital that made it with enough confidence to print. Ask the billing office for their income limits directly — they are required to tell you.
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.
Nonprofit hospitals must post their financial assistance policy publicly, but they file it in different places and we do not hold a direct link or a billing address for this one. Search the hospital’s site for “financial assistance”, “charity care” or “patient financial services”, or ask the billing office to send you the policy and the application.
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.
From HRSA’s public Health Center directory. These set fees on a sliding scale by household income and cannot turn you away for inability to pay. They are not free clinics, and this list does not include Georgia’s free and charitable clinics, which are listed separately by the Georgia Charitable Care Network.
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 2026-09-01. GCCN’s directory is not exhaustive — member clinics can decline to be listed — so search theirs too if nothing here is close.