More on the New Nonprofit Hospital Final Regs
As reported here on your faithful Nonprofit Law Prof Blog by Roger Colinvaux, the IRS issued final regulations under Section 501(r) on the requirements for nonprofit hospitals at the very end of last year.
Over the weekend, The New York Times did a report on these regulations, focusing on efforts to stop “aggressive tactics to collect payments from low-income patients.” To me, the most interesting part of the article isn’t the summary of the regs with regard to collections – it’s the quote (and accompanying picture) from Senator Grassley: “Nonprofit hospitals and for-profit hospitals have often been indistinguishable… The rules make clear that tax-exempt hospitals have to earn their tax exemption.”
It seems to me that Senator Grassley has been some what low key on charitable issues in the past few years – I’m guessing we will be hearing more from him with the resurgence of Republicans in Congress.
For other coverage of the final regulations:
– The Chronicle of Philanthropy
-briefly, at Independent Sector
I’m happy to add any other links that people have found useful.
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