Lexology January 31, 2025
Recent proposed legislation and an executive order in Indiana would introduce new requirements for nonprofit hospitals and update the statutory definition of “community benefits” for hospitals.
On January 21, 2025, Indiana Governor Mike Braun issued an executive order directing the state Secretary of Health and Family Services to conduct an investigation and prepare a report analyzing the amount of charity care rendered by each nonprofit hospital in Indiana and comparing it to the “tax-exempt benefits enjoyed” by nonprofit hospitals in the state (“Executive Order”). The report is also directed to analyze “any practices of nonprofit hospitals operating in the State of Indiana that permit such hospitals to avoid providing charity care to the truly needy in their community.”
The stated...
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