https://www.communitycatalyst.org/resources/publications/document/2020-Cath-Hosp-Report-2020-31.pdf
“Catholic hospitals provide LESS Medicaid and charity care.”
So, why are we willing to pay the tax obligations of organizations like this?
Stupid.
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Ascension is a hospital system that did not need govt hand out .
They did and r now spending money that could be used elsewhere. Received a bill of over 25 thousand for a one day visit just to be sent home.
Give it a rest! Do yourself a favor and move on from Ascension...
I am not willing to continue subsidizing them.
https://achi.net/newsroom/report-for-most-private-nonprofit-hospitals-tax-breaks-exceed-community-investment/
Report: For Most Private Nonprofit Hospitals, Tax Breaks Exceed Community Investment
https://www.statnews.com/2021/04/05/tax-exemptions-nonprofit-hospitals-bad-deal-taxpayers/
“Many U.S. hospitals provide charity care to financially disadvantaged patients without the expectation of getting paid for their services. Nonprofit hospitals receive a sizable tax exemption — estimated at almost $25 billion in 2015 (using 2011 data) and likely much larger now — that is largely intended to subsidize the costs of this charity care.
But the relationship between providing charity care and obtaining a tax exemption is far from direct, and many nonprofit hospitals do not provide enough charity care to justify their exemptions.
A study published today in Health Affairs, co-authored by one of us (G.B.), used Medicare cost reports from 2018 to study hospitals’ charity care. For every $100 in total spending, nonprofit hospitals provided $2.30 in charity care, while for-profit hospitals provided $3.80. More than one-third of nonprofit hospitals (36%) provided less than $1 of charity care for every $100 in total expenses.”