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Patient Advocate Foundation

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Solving insurance and healthcare access problems since 1996

The mission of the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) is to provide effective mediation and arbitration services to patients to remove obstacles to healthcare including medical debt crisis, insurance access issues and employment issues for patients with chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illnesses. PAF is a national organization which provides professional case management services to Americans with chronic, life threatening and debilitating illnesses. PAF case managers serve as active liaisons between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters as they relate to their diagnosis also assisted by doctors and healthcare attorneys. PAF seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

96.66Overall score
out of 100

97.50Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$225,099,389

Total expenses · USD$186,165,629

Program expenses

$180,952,991.39 recorded amount

97.2%

Fundraising expenses

$2,047,821.92 recorded amount

1.1%

Administrative expenses

$2,792,484.44 recorded amount

1.5%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

Expense shares are displayed as percentages. Component amounts in this collection match total expenses multiplied by the source ratios; rounding can leave a small difference from the total. The source does not supply a row-specific fiscal year. Field definitions ↗

Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Alan J. Balch
Recorded compensation: $163,750.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.08%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Patient Advocate Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Health
`description` Mission & description	The mission of the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) is to provide effective mediation and arbitration services to patients to remove obstacles to healthcare including medical debt crisis, insurance access issues and employment issues for patients with chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illnesses. PAF is a national organization which provides professional case management services to Americans with chronic, life threatening and debilitating illnesses. PAF case managers serve as active liaisons between the patient and their insurer, employer and/or creditors to resolve insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters as they relate to their diagnosis also assisted by doctors and healthcare attorneys. PAF seeks to safeguard patients through effective mediation assuring access to care, maintenance of employment and preservation of their financial stability.
`ein` EIN	54-1806317
`tot_exp` Total expenses	186165629.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.015
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.01
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.011000000000000001
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.972
`fscore` Financial score	97.5
`leader` Recorded leader	Alan J. Balch
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	163750.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0008
`motto` Tagline	Solving insurance and healthcare access problems since 1996
`name` Charity name	Patient Advocate Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	225099389.0
`score` Overall score	96.66
`state` State code	VA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Patient and Family Support
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	180952991.38799998
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	2047821.9190000002
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	2792484.435

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 54-1806317
Source category: Health
Source subcategory: Patient and Family Support
Recorded location: Virginia (VA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.