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NewsIRS 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...
Senate defeats repeal, overturns 1099 reporting rule
To nobody's surprise, the Senate voted against a repeal of the healthcare reform law in a 47-51 vote that followed party lines, the Washington Post reports. The vote came Wednesday, two weeks after Read more...
IRS may have to enforce proposed insurance mandate
Under the new healthcare legislation that has been proposed, the Internal Revenue Service would be charged with ensuring that American citizens had health insurance Kaiser Health News and USA Today Read more...
HFMA releases model charity-care policy for non-profits
The Healthcare Financial Management Association has released a model charity-care policy, in a move that is likely to help non-profit hospitals to prepare for tighter IRS scrutiny of their charity Read more...
Grassley targets salaries for non-profit hospital execs
According to a recent survey by the IRS, non-profit hospital presidents earned about $500,000 a year on average in salary and benefits--and a smaller group more closely studied by the agency had 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...
Grassley wants charity care standards in stimulus
Working with another member of the Senate Finance Committee, perennial not-for-profit hospital critic Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is offering two amendments to the massive stimulus bill that should Read more...
In tough times, doctors bartering for treatment
Back in the old days--say, the early 1900s--doctors might very well have been paid for their services with a chicken or a few fresh-baked pies. Bartering, in fact, was more the rule than the Read more...
VSP case may go to Supreme Court, affect all nonprofits
Brace yourselves, people, for the next major sea-change in healthcare. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to take on the case of Vision Service Plan vs. the IRS, its decision could have an effect on Read more...
Community benefit standards vary widely across non-profit hospitals
Non-profit hospitals continue to struggle with the issue of setting standards for providing community benefits, leading to wide variability in how they report such benefits, according to a new report Read more...
| Press ReleasesAnesthesia Business Consultants Urges Anesthesia Providers to Revalidate Their Medicare Enrollment as Soon as Their CarrieJACKSON, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants who last validated their enrollment in Medicare prior to March 25, 2011 are going to have to Read more >> |
