Keckley Report September 30, 2024
It’s a question lots of folks inside and outside of healthcare are asking these days.
On September 28, the AHA Today headline read: “Report: Nonprofit hospitals value to communities 10 times their federal tax exemption” Their answer:
“An EY report prepared for the AHA shows that tax-exempt hospitals and health systems delivered $10 in benefits to their communities for every dollar’s worth of federal tax exemption in 2020, the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available. It represents an increase from $9 in benefits from the prior year despite efforts in battling the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The AHA study was released by coincidence the same week a study by Hopkins and TCU researchers was published in JAMA Network that...