Hospital Charity Care — Effects of New Community-Benefit Requirements  

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Nikpay, Sayeh S. ; Ayanian, John Z.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The New England Journal of Medicine (keterangan: ada di Proquest) vol. 373 no. 18 (Oct. 2015), page 1687-1690.

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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently finalized new requirements for nonprofit hospitals to maintain their tax-exempt status under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).1 Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code now requires each hospital to establish a written financial-assistance policy that applies to all “emergency and medically necessary care.” Through these policies, hospitals must strive to ensure that patients who qualify for fully or partially subsidized charity care can apply for and receive it, are charged reasonable amounts, and are not subject to extraordinary bill-collection practices when they have outstanding medical debt. Hospitals are also required to assess the health needs of their community every 3 years. Failure to comply with Section 501(r) could result in a $50,000 excise tax, losing tax-exempt status, or both, once the requirements are fully implemented in 2016.

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