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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A trade group representing Pennsylvania hospitals has issued a study quantifying the community benefit its members deliver, as well as the economic impact they have on the state. The report, Read more...

A coalition of community groups is recommending that the federal government set some strict, easily measurable community benefit standards for non-profit hospitals. The groups, led by Boston-based Read more...

Sure, U.S. non-profits say they deliver uncompensated care--and there's no doubt poor and uncompensated patients are getting some form of service. The problem, however, is there's no universally Read more...

Of late, state and federal regulators have been challenging non-profit hospitals to prove they deserve their tax exemption. Hospital associations, health systems and individual facilities have responded by aggressively touting their estimates of the community benefit and levels of uncompensated care that they provide.

This exercise is important for all U.S. non-profits, but there's even more at …

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