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charity care
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Pittsburgh reporter uncovers how for-profit hospitals differ from nonprofits in how they provide charity care
When reviewing just about any hospital bill today, it’s difficult to imagine that hospitals were founded to provide care for…
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Hospitals use algorithms to transform bad debt into charity care
Bad debt? Or charity care? Sean Hamill of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently wrote an interesting story about how hospitals increasingly…
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AHCJ fellow tells how she examined hospital community benefit, post-ACA
Beth Kutscher, a Modern Healthcare reporter who recently become the publication’s California bureau chief, has covered health care finance for…
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Cost reports show financial health of hospitals, amount of charity care they provide
Oklahoma Watch, a nonprofit investigative journalism team, recently published a two-part series on hospitals based on financial data obtained for every…
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Public hospitals, not nonprofits, shoulder burden of charity care
Writing in the Contra Costa Times, Sandy Kleffman reports that while nonprofit hospitals in the East Bay are given millions…
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Cash-strapped Ill. goes after hospitals’ nonprofit status
A New York Times article written by Bruce Japsen, an independent journalist writing for the Chicago News Co-Op, digs into…
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Uninsured face delays, increased risks en route to long-term care
Writing for Heart & Soul, Yanick Rice Lamb offers up a comprehensive take on the special challenges patients and hospitals…
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Reporter digs into nonprofit hospital CEO pay
At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s M.B. Pell has assembled a look at CEO pay at local nonprofit hospitals. Pell hits hard…
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Tax documents show CEO pay exceeds charity care at some Calif. nonprofit hospitals
Ron Shinkman, editor of the trade newsletter Payers & Providers, spent four months reviewing tax documents filed by 120 nonprofit…
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Reporter covers patient ‘dumping’ from inside
The Philadelphia Inquirer‘s Michael Vitez has been given free reign for several months now to explore and report on Abington…