Last week the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2015-21, which provides “guidance regarding correction and disclosure procedures for hospital organizations to follow so that certain failures to meet the requirements of § 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code will be excused for purposes of § 501(r)(1) and 501(r)(2)(B).” Failures that are not willful or egregious may generally be resolved without financial penalty if they are both (1) corrected in a timely fashion, including restoring affecting individuals to the position they would have been in absent the failure and ensuring appropriate safeguards to prevent future failures, and (2) disclosed on the next Form 990 filed by the organization. If the IRS has contacted the hospital organization concerning an examination, the organization must have already corrected or be in the process of correcting the failure and must have disclosed the failure on its annual information return for the year in which the failure was discovered (if the due date, including extensions, for that return has passed).
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