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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...
Mass. AG investigates non-profits' help to communities
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has pulled together a task force to investigate whether not-for-profit hospitals and HMOs are meeting their obligations under the state's Community... Read more...
IRS rolls out not-for-profit reporting rules
Like it or not, it seems that new IRS rules on not-for-profit reporting are about to arrive. The rules, which will go into effect this year and next, will force not-for-profit hospitals to provide a... Read more...
AHA makes headway on community-benefit reporting
The American Hospital Association has won broad support from the U.S. House of Representatives in its attempt to change the IRS's proposed community-benefit reporting rules. More than 300 members of... Read more...
Senator may seek tougher charity rules for nonprofits
Fairly or not, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) seems to be exasperated with nonprofit hospitals--and that could mean trouble. Yesterday, during a roundtable discussion on nonprofits and charity care,... Read more...
