October 15, 2009

Provision Would Require Nonprofit Hospitals to Put Financial-Assistance Policies in Place

By Grant Williams

Nonprofit hospitals would be required to conduct "a community health needs assessment" at least once every three years and take other steps under the terms of a health-care bill under review by the Senate Finance Committee.

However, the measure the committee was working on last week does not require that nonprofit hospitals provide a minimum annual level of charitable patient care, an idea that had been floated in May by the two top members of the committee: Sens. Max Baucus, the

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