Millions of Californians qualify for free hospital care — and never get it.

Every California hospital is required by law to offer free or discounted care to patients who can't afford their bills. Cobijo Health finds that help for you — in plain language, in your language, for free.

Free · multilingual · nothing is saved · not legal or medical advice

Three ways we help with one bill

Tell us your hospital, income, and household size. In seconds you get a personalized plan.

1

Hospital charity care

Find out if you qualify for free or discounted care at that specific hospital — with the exact income limit — and get a ready-to-send request letter.

2

Benefits you may have missed

We screen you for Medi-Cal and Covered California — coverage you may qualify for that can even apply to recent bills.

3

Defense from the debt

Know your rights if a bill is in collections, apply charity care retroactively, and get connected to free legal aid.

Who it's for

The people the system leaves to decode a 20-page policy alone.

Uninsured and self-pay patients facing a bill they can't afford
Low-income and immigrant families — California covers eligible adults regardless of immigration status
Anyone whose bill went to collections before they knew help existed
Patients who've never seen this explained in their own language

Why this hasn't existed before

Every hospital's charity-care rules are buried in a separate, dense legal PDF. No one had ever put them in one place. Cobijo uses AI to read California hospitals' financial-assistance policies and extract each one's exact rules into one clean, open dataset — so the tool can tell you what your hospital actually offers. Open-source and open-data, built in the public interest.

466California hospitals covered
3kinds of help, one plan
10languages

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