Compliance Today - December 2022 - We are at a critical moment of change when it comes to truly addressing health inequities in this country. With the intersection of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting and...more
Due to burdens placed on hospitals by the COVID-19 pandemic, the IRS provided additional relief to hospital organizations that must meet Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) requirements under section 501(r)(3) of the...more
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) renewed his focus on charitable hospitals by asking the IRS on February 19, 2019, for data on hospital compliance with § 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section...more
• Based on a new review of nonprofit hospitals by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), a congressional investigation is expected that directly requests a number of specific hospitals to answer...more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) added significant new statutory requirements in 2010 that must be met by all hospitals seeking or maintaining exemption from federal income tax as Section 501(c)(3) organizations (charitable...more
The Affordable Care Act imposed new requirements on tax-exempt hospitals under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code. Section 501(r) and its implementing regulations present a complex framework intended to promote...more
For tax-exempt hospitals, the Section 501(r) Internal Revenue Code (IRC) requirements of the Affordable Care Act are “old news” by now. However, despite the recent focus on repeal of the ACA, it is worth noting that this...more
Post-Election Analysis: Healthcare Antitrust in a Trump Administration - In a Republican sweep of all the elected branches of the federal government, Donald Trump won the presidential election and Republicans retained...more
Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code was added by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and imposes significant new requirements on charitable hospitals. At a very summary level, this section requires charitable hospitals...more
Updated requirements for hospitals to maintain their tax-exempt status under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code are nothing new. They were enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. However, at the end of...more
This article will provide an outline of some of the most significant points for hospitals to use when confronted with a formal government investigation under the Criminal or Civil False Claims Act. As noted below, you should...more
On June 26, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued guidance to clarify how charitable hospitals may comply with regulations issued by the Department of Treasury under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act...more
The IRS published its long awaited final rule December 31, 2014 to implement certain requirements of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA). The ACA added a new provision in Section 501(r) of the Tax Code, which creates additional...more
In This Issue: - Nonprofit Hospitals Face Additional Regulatory Burdens in Financial Assistance and Debt Collection - Placing Medicare Beneficiaries Into "Observation Status" - Recent Second Circuit Decision...more
On March 10, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released Revenue Procedure 2015-21 (Revenue Procedure), which will be officially published on March 30, 2015, in Internal Revenue Bulletin 2015-13. The Revenue Procedure...more
On March 10, 2015, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued Revenue Procedure 2015-21, which provides guidance regarding correction and disclosure procedures applicable to certain failures by charitable hospitals to meet the...more
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued the final section 501(r) regulations, implementing the amendments to the Internal Revenue Code under the Affordable Care Act and providing regulatory guidance for tax-exempt...more
The Internal Revenue Service replaced proposed regulations under Section 501(r) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”) with final regulations in late 2014 (the “Final Regulations”). As enacted in the Patient Protection and...more
On December 31, 2014, the Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published a final rule (the “Final Rule”) implementing the requirements in Internal Revenue Code Section 501(r) for tax-exempt hospitals...more