Evaluate your hospital's charity care policy to ensure tax-exempt status
Health Care Auditing Strategies, August 1, 2006
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Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on auditing your facility's tax-exempt status.
If you work for a nonprofit hospital, now is the time to verify that your facility has a compliant charity care policy, according to healthcare compliance experts.
That's because the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is taking a renewed interest in the tax-classification status of nonprofit hospitals. The IRS recently sent a survey to 550 hospitals asking questions about the amount of charity care that they provide. Under increased government pressure, the IRS is conducting the survey in large part to evaluate how hospitals meet their tax-exempt status by providing a community benefit.
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