Non-Profit Health Care Provider Organizations Facing New Challenges to Maintain Tax-Exempt Status

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Non-profit health care provider organizations face an onslaught of emerging challenges to their tax-exempt status from the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and state and local government entities. The challenges center on disagreement about what constitutes a charity when non-profit organizations charge fees for products and services like their for-profit competitors. A key dispute for the field is whether charity care can include bad debt or unreimbursed care —unpaid bills that patients were expected to pay or the difference between . . .