Bai, Demirkan, Zare & Anderson: Trustee Compensation and Charity Care Provision In US Nonprofit Hospitals

Ge Bai, Sebahattin Demirkan, Hossein Zare, and Gerard F. Anderson (Professor Demirkan is at Manhattan College; the other three authors are associated with John Hopkins University in various capacities) have published Trustee Compensation And Charity Care Provisions In US Nonprofit Hospitals, Health Affairs (April 2023). Here is the abstract:

In 2019 more than one-third of US nonprofit hospitals compensated their trustees. These hospitals provided less charity care than nonprofit hospitals that did not compensate their trustees. We found that trustee compensation was negatively associated with hospitals’ charity care provision and that it may affect the self-selection of trustees and their fulfillment of their fiduciary duties.

Lloyd Mayer