April 15, 2025 - Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from most taxes, a benefit worth billions each year. While some hospitals give back to communities in amounts that exceed their tax breaks, others fall millions short. An analysis of fair share spending in 20 states.

November 14, 2024 - Every eight minutes an unnecessary back surgery is performed on a older adult. Over three years, U.S. hospitals performed more than 200,000 of these unnecessary procedures at a cost of $2 billion to Medicare.

June 25, 2024 - Out of more than 2,700 acute care hospitals, 154 achieved “A”s on equity, value, and outcomes, earning a place on the Lown Index Honor Roll.

March 26, 2024 - Communities invest in their local nonprofit hospitals through big tax breaks. Are hospitals giving back their fair share in return? To find out, the Lown Institute analyzed hospital community investments compared to the value of their tax breaks, what we call Fair Share Spending.

October 31, 2023 - While coronary stents can be lifesaving for someone having a heart attack, a large body of research over the past decade shows that stents for stable heart disease don’t benefit patients more than heart medications alone. Yet hospitals continue to perform these procedures, wasting billions of dollars and exposing thousands of patients to risk of harm. How often are these procedures happening, and where? How much are we wasting on these low-value services? And what can we do to prevent unnecessary care?

September 19, 2023 - Most hospitals say advancing health equity in their communities is a priority, and our latest report examines just how well they’re doing. The Lown Institute has ranked over 3,000 U.S. hospitals on how well they serve patients of color and identified 11 hospital markets with the highest levels of hospital segregation.