Charity Care
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Preparing for the New IRS 990: It's No Longer Just
a Finance Document (6/3/08)
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IHA Comment Letter on IRS Form 990 (5/29/08)
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Value of Community Benefits Provided
by Illinois Hospitals (May 2008)
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Technical Bulletin 309:
Hill-Burton Program Income Qualification Guidelines
Federal Poverty Guidelines often used in hospital financial assistance
policies. The guidelines are updated annually.
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IHA's Provena Appellate Court Amicus Brief
(1/29/08)
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Final Revised Draft of IRS Form 990
(1/10/08)
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Associations Challenge Assessor's Valuation of
Tax-Exempt Hospitals in Cook County (11/6/07)
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Care in Action: How the People and Programs of America's
Tax-Exempt Hospitals Benefit Their Communities Every Day (AHA, Oct.
2007)
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IHA Letter on Hospital
Community Benefits (Daily Southtown, 9/20/07)
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IHA Comment Letter for the Proposed New IRS Form
990 Schedule H (8/9/07)
- Comment Period on New Proposed Form 990 and
Schedule H (7/12/07)
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Judge Rules in Provena's Favor on Tax
Exemption (7/23/07)
- Details of New Law (HB 4999) - Fair
Patient Billing Act (1/10/07)
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Background Information on Attorney General's Charity Care &
Billing Proposals (2006)
- HFMA Issues Guidelines for Reporting Charity Care and
Bad Debt (AHA News Now, 12/5/06)
- In Support of Hospital Property Tax Exemption (11/7/06)
- Hospital Charity Care: Working Toward a
Reasonable Approach (11/7/06)
- Suggested Hospital Talking Points
(password required) (11/7/06)
- Provena Covenant Appeals Tax-Exemption
Decision (10/26/06)
- Provena Press Release (10/26/06)
- IHA Summary of Provena Decision
(10/3/06) (password required)
- Press Release: IHA Statement on Dept. of
Revenue's Provena Covenant Medical Center Decision (9/29/06)
- Dept. of Revenue's Decision on Provena Covenant
Medical Center (Sept. 2006)
- Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: To Put it
Charitably, Hospital Proposal Isn't Fair (6/7/06)
- All Charity Care Should be Considered (Daily Herald, 6/3/06)
- Transcript of Ken Robbins on WTTW's Chicago
Tonight on Charity Care/Tax-Exemption (5/30/06)
- IHA Analysis of Flawed Report on Hospitals'
Tax-Exempt Value and Charity Care
(5/30/06)
- Press Release: Report Acknowledges Hospitals
Provide Community Benefits More Than Five Times Their Tax-Exempt Value
- Report of the Task Force on Charity Care and
Collection Practices for the Uninsured of the IHA and MCHC
The Voluntary Guidelines on charity and collections adopted by the IHA and
MCHC Boards in September 2003.
- CMS Guidance on Providing Discounts to the Uninsured
- Feb. 19, 2004 press release that includes letter to the AHA
- CMS Questions and Answers Issued on Feb. 19, 2004
- Feb. 2004 CMS Transmittal Article on Uninsured
- American
Hospital Association (AHA members only - requires
password from AHA)
Information on charity issues around the United States and federal activity on
uninsured billing and collections.
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Acts of Charity: Charity Care Strategies for Hospitals in a Changing Landscape
(PriceWaterhouseCoopers publication)
- Healthcare Financial
Management Association’s Patient Friendly Billing Project
This document contains useful information on improving financial assistance
policies for the uninsured.
- HFMA Resource Library (Collection of
articles, fact sheets, links, presentations, regulatory, reports, and tools &
measures) From the drop down menu, choose the topic and then the type of
content you wish to view.
- Reimbursement - Uninsured
- Revenue Cycle - Billing & Collection
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The Self-Sufficiency Standard
This document contains, detailed by Illinois county, information on how
much money working adults need to meet their basic needs. This information may
be useful in the development of charity and medical indigence policies.
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