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AHA seeks tax form adjustment for community benefit reporting
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is pressing the Internal Revenue Service to improve the new hospital community benefit reporting form (Schedule H for Form 990). New research has found that... Read more...
IRS will honor medical resident FICA refund claims before April 1, 2005
Medical residents are excepted from FICA (Federal Insurance Contributions Act) taxes based on the student exception for tax periods ending before April 1, 2005, when new regulations became effective,... Read more...
Non-profit hospitals under the gun
Non-profit hospitals have always faced pressure to account for where those tax-exempt dollars are going, but the last few years have been particularly brutal. Of late, many critics have suggested... Read more...
HFMA releases model charity-care policy for non-profits
The Healthcare Financial Management Association has released a model charity-care policy, in a move that is likely to help non-profit hospitals to prepare for tighter IRS scrutiny of their charity... Read more...
Battle to define community benefits, minimum charity levels continues
While it hasn't gotten a lot of publicity in recent weeks--overshadowed by the birth of the stimulus package, no doubt--the battle to crack down on community benefit measures and minimum spending... Read more...
Grassley wants charity care standards in stimulus
Working with another member of the Senate Finance Committee, perennial not-for-profit hospital critic Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is offering two amendments to the massive stimulus bill that should... Read more...
Study: Few hospitals offering subsidized EMRs
When HHS and the IRS both gave their OK to hospitals offering subsidized EMRs to their physicians, it was a big day. Hospitals had been waiting impatiently for the go-ahead for quite some time, and... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: IRS probe triggers firing of OH hospital exec
A publicly-owned health system based in Cleveland has fired its top facilities executives after an IRS inquiry suggesting that he accepted gifts from a construction firm. MetroHealth System dug into... Read more...
Case study: WY hospital expands charity care
A Wyoming hospital has expanded its charity care policy to allow more patients to qualify for free care, one of many... Read more...
CMS now says NPI must match IRS data
Providers have been going through some serious headaches already working to make sure they use their National Provider Identifier number properly and avoid getting claims bounced by Medicare. Now,... Read more...
