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Telling the Hospital Story
Hospitals and health systems and their teams have been on the front lines battling the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly two years. Hospitals and health care workers have stood strong for their communities, and they have a vital role in our society to keep communities healthy.
Senate Passes AHA-supported Legislation Repealing Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurers
The Senate passed by voice vote the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act (H.R. 1418/S. 350), AHA-supported legislation that repeals the McCarran-Ferguson antitrust exemption available to commercial health insurers for anticompetitive conduct.
Benefits to Communities
The mission of all hospitals and health systems, regardless of size and type of ownership, is to care for their patients and communities. In addition to providing financial assistance to those in need, hospitals have programs that are responsive to their community’s needs. These community benefits include help with housing, accessing healthy food, educational programs, health screenings, transportation to ensure patients arrive at needed medical appointments, vaccination clinics and other programs to address the many other needs that affect the community’s health and well-being.
Advocacy Issue: Tax-Exempt Status
Every single hospital and health system provides benefits to their communities that far outstrip any other sector in health care. Some hospitals are exempt from federal and some state and local taxes. Hospitals more than earn their tax exemption, in part because of the immense benefits they provide to the communities they serve.
340B Advocacy Alliance Bulletin - October 19, 2023
Report: 340B tax-exempt hospitals provided more than $84 billion benefits to communities in 2020
Tax-Exempt Status
Not-for-profit community hospitals do more than care for the injured and infirm; they promote and protect the health and well-being of their communities. Not-for-profit hospitals are distinguished by certain charitable obligations that have evolved over time as they work to meet the changing health needs of their communities.
Hospitals and Health Systems Benefit Communities in Many Ways; Prepare to Tell Your Community Benefit Story
New resources and communications opportunities available as AHA prepares to release annual community b
AHA Comments on IRS' Elective Payment of Applicable Credit Proposed Rule
The IRA, through the transferability provisions under Section 6418 and, in particular, the elective direct pay provisions of Section 6417, has provided new opportunities for the healthcare sector to engage in important clean energy initiatives.
AHA Testimony for the Committee on Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight
Tax-exempt hospitals have special obligations to their communities in exchange for that privilege. They report the amounts they spend on community benefits yearly and conduct a community needs assessment at least every three years. There is no doubt that these hospitals both meet and exceed any requirements and expectations that attach to the privilege of tax exemption.
Ways and Means Plans Hearing on Hospitals’ Tax-Exempt Status
The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight April 26 will hold a hearing that will include discussion of hospitals’ and health systems’ status as tax-exempt organizations and the IRS’ community benefit standard. We ask that you reach out to your representative on the Ways and Means Subcommittee prior to the hearing to share with them the immense benefits hospitals and health systems provide to the communities they serve.