Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center: Financial Assistance & Charity Care
Can't afford a bill from Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center? You may not have to pay all of it. Nonprofit hospitals must offer financial assistance — here are this hospital's actual income limits and how to apply, taken from its own published policy.
Quick facts
300%of the federal poverty level — the free-care income limit
Free care: Free care (a 100% discount) if you have no insurance, live in Georgia, and your household income is at or below 300% of the federal poverty level.
Discounted care: Not published — call the billing department to ask.
How to apply: Piedmont Healthcare: Financial assistance
Phone: 855-788-1212 — Patient Financial Care team.
How to apply
- Check the income limits above — Piedmont first runs an electronic check that may approve you automatically.
- If you aren't approved automatically, fill out the application (on Piedmont's website, at any hospital registration desk, or by calling 855-788-1212) and attach proof of income.
- Apply within 245 days of your first bill. If something is missing from your application, you have 30 days to send it in.
- Piedmont mails you a letter saying whether you're approved. If you're denied, you have 30 days to appeal.
Good to know
- You can apply up to 240 days after your first bill — even if the bill already went to collections.
- A new bill means a new application — you can apply more than once. More in our guide You Might Not Have to Pay That Hospital Bill.
- Whatever remains after assistance can still be negotiated: How to Negotiate a Hospital Bill.
- Free help applying: Dollar For walks you through it at no cost.
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Sources
- Policy details above come from the hospital's own published materials, linked below. Policies change — if a link breaks or a number looks off, call the hospital and please tell us.
- Piedmont Healthcare: Financial Assistance Policy (PDF)
- Piedmont Healthcare: Billing and financial resources