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A look at the post-reform future for non-profit hospitals
Let's face it, nobody really knows quite how things will shake out when the reform dust settles--but we'd all like to believe someone has the answer. So this summer, when we published a story on... Read more...
Non-profit healthcare orgs had negative 21.2% returns in '08
If you're a non-profit hospital and your investments tanked last year, welcome to the club. A new study of 143 non-profit healthcare organizations participating in the Commonfund Institute's review... Read more...
Fitch describes non-profit hospitals that will do well post-reform
While specifics of health reform remain gauzy at best, financial research firm Fitch Ratings has already developed a profile for the kind of non-profits that will survive health reform as it's... Read more...
Study: Charity care threshold may be tricky proposition
As far as Stormin' Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) is concerned, it's perfectly reasonable to impose a minimum threshold non-profit hospitals must meet in order to qualify for their tax exemptions. Other... Read more...
HUD makes it easier for non-profit hospitals to refinance debt
With hospitals continuing to face major challenges in getting reasonable terms on capital financing, the federal government has stepped in to lend a hand. Hoping to help hospitals out of their... Read more...
Readers take issue with challenge to non-profit hospital tax exemptions
I'm not surprised to report that my editorial last week challenging non-profit hospitals' right to a tax-exemption struck a nerve. Some readers wrote in to complain bitterly, and others to give me a... Read more...
Survey: Non-profits see dismal 2008 results
Non-profit hospitals had a dismal year in 2008, with investment losses sapping whatever margins they were able to squeeze out of operational improvements, according to the results of a new survey... Read more...
Is it time for the non-profit hospital to go?
Looked at objectively, the non-profit hospital is something of an oddity. After all, such hospitals are forced to act as aggressively as investor-owned hospitals--in other words, to operate... Read more...
Senators ponder varied tax increases, including non-profit hospital tax
Well, hospital executives, this may be it. After years of harassment by Sen. Chuck Grassley and others over the amount of charity care they provide--but virtually no action--Congress may finally take... Read more...
Moody's: Stimulus may not have big healthcare impact
In theory, the impact of $787 billion in federal stimulus spending should be dramatic--but that doesn't mean everyone benefits equally. And according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service,... Read more...
