AHCJ has just released a new trove of information from GuideStar on the finances of nonprofit U.S. hospitals. This information – from tax years 2009 and 2010 – contains carefully selected highlights from the hospital’s IRS 990 forms, which nonprofits must file to maintain their mostly tax-free status.
Reporters can use this AHCJ spreadsheet to get:
- detailed salary info on top executives
- the institution’s charity care and community benefit numbers
- a hospital’s lobbying expenses
- and the business relationships of board members, among other things.
This data will be discussed at the Health Journalism 2013 session, “Diving into documents: Using 990s and more to cover hospital finances,” on Sunday at 10:40 am. Howard Rivenson, senior lecturer on health management, Harvard School of Public Health, will join me to help demystify hospital finances.
The newest material from 2010 is here and here are last year’s data.
