Nonprofit hospitals are exempt from paying federal tax if they meet certain requirements. These include providing free or discounted care and operating community health education activities. In a recent report, self-described nonpartisan think tank the Lown Institute found that more than 1,350 nonprofit hospitals didn’t meet the requirements. “Americans desperately need hospitals to use their billions in tax breaks as intended: to promote health while relieving the problems of medical debt and access to care,” said the president of Lown. The American Hospital Association criticized the report, saying it “relies on obvious biases and suffers from serious methodological flaws.”
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