Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) released a letter to 10 leading non-profit hospitals yesterday signaling his intent to investigate charges that some facilities are abusing their non-profit status, and that he wants them to justify their tax-exempt status. Grassley, who is also a sponsor of legislation targeting physician-operated specialty hospitals, wants detailed information from the hospitals on 45 details ranging from their policies on executive travel to their definition of "charity care."
Copies of the letter went to Columbia Presbyterian in New York, the Cleveland Clinic, and hospitals in Illinois, Georgia, Michigan, Mississippi, California, Minnesota and Arizona.
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