Rural Nonprofit Hospital Community Benefit and Financial Assistance Spending: A Call for Greater Reporting Transparency

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Examines the variation in community benefit and financial assistance spending among rural nonprofit hospitals that filed group returns in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Analyzes 2021 nonprofit hospital tax data to explore whether group filers' community benefit spending differed from individual nonprofit hospital filers. Discusses potential implications of policy recommendations that would require nonprofit hospitals to file individual tax returns.

Hannah MacDougall, Melissa Latcham, Erica Eliason

Journal of Rural Health, 41, e12914

01/2025

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Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Policy · Statistics and data · Minnesota · Wisconsin