More than a dozen states have debated or passed legislation to better define charity care, to increase transparency about the benefits that nonprofit hospitals provide or to set minimum financial thresholds for charitable care.
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower
POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity.
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Nonprofit hospitals are expected to provide community benefits in exchange for tax breaks on federal, state and local taxes. But their expenditures have fallen under greater scrutiny – as the recent court case involving Pottstown Hospital demonstrates. The Tower Health facility lost its local property tax break after the Pottstown public school system challenged the hospital's nonprofit status.