Senators Consider Changes to Hospitals' Tax Status

The two top members of the Senate Finance Committee have made public ideas lawmakers may want to consider to revamp the nation's health-care system, including a change in how the tax-exempt status of nonprofit hospitals would be handled under federal law.

Under the proposal, many nonprofit hospitals would be required to "regularly conduct a community needs analysis, provide a minimum annual level of charitable patient care, not refuse service based on a patient's inability to pay, and

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