July 26, 2007
Big Changes Urged in Rules for Charity Hospitals
Nonprofit hospitals would be required to allocate at least 5 percent of their annual budgets to providing charity care or lose their tax-exempt status, under a proposal released last week by Republican staff members of the Senate Finance Committee.
The proposal is the latest in a series of efforts by lawmakers and consumer advocates to make sure nonprofit hospitals do more to serve the uninsured and to justify the estimated $40-billion the federal government loses each year by
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