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NewsAHA: Hospitals spend 11.3% on community benefits
With nonprofit hospitals trying to prove they deserve tax exemptions, comes a new report showing an average of 11.3 percent of their total spending goes toward community benefits, including free Read more...
Hospitals praise IRS reporting of charity care
With increasing scrutiny of executive pay at nonprofit hospitals, recent tax forms reveal not only the salaries of top leaders but also the amount of charity care that hospitals provide. For example, Read more...
IRS reviewing community benefit expenditures
The Internal Revenue Service has embarked on a review of the community benefit activities of tax-exempt hospitals as specified in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, reports AHA News Now Read more...
More reader skepticism on community benefit reporting
It's the health business subject that never dies: whether non-profit hospitals are earning their tax-exempt status. As readers of sister publication FierceHealthFinance know, I'm far from convinced Read more...
Connecticut hospitals cite $718M in community benefit spending
Connecticut hospitals spent $718 million--or 9.4 percent of total hospital revenue--on community benefit programs in 2007, according to a new report from the Connecticut Hospital Association. The Read more...
Not-for-profit hospital CEOs average $490,431 per year
Not-for-profits paid their CEOs an average of $490,431 in total compensation per year in 2006, according to a new report from the IRS. According to the survey, which tallied responses from about 500 Read more...
Non-profits leaving poor neighborhoods
In theory, the underserved inner city is the ideal place to locate a major campus of a non-profit hospitals. After all, it is their mission to help the poor and uninsured get better access to care, Read more...
Study: Non-profit community benefit programs growing
Despite some major challenges, community benefit programs at not-for-profit health systems are growing, according to a recent survey by the Catholic Health Association and VHA. The survey, which Read more...
Ohio AG working to define charity care
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann has kicked off an initiative under which he plans to better define what the state's not-for-profit hospitals must do to keep their state property tax exemption. Among Read more...
San Fran hospitals didn't use $79M for charity
Despite getting $79 million in tax breaks intended to help fund uncompensated care for the poor and uninsured, San Francisco's five not-for-profit hospitals only provided $16 million in charity care, Read more...
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