Comments on: Should Non-Profit Hospitals get a Tax Break? http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/ An unbiased look at today's health care issues Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Healthcare Economist · Shriner Hospital Corruption http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-13664 Healthcare Economist · Shriner Hospital Corruption Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:02:44 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-13664 [...] one year ago today, I wrote about whether or not non-profit hospitals should be tax exempt (”Should Non-Profit Hospitals get a Tax Break?“). Generally, I concluded that they should [...] [...] one year ago today, I wrote about whether or not non-profit hospitals should be tax exempt (”Should Non-Profit Hospitals get a Tax Break?“). Generally, I concluded that they should [...]

]]> By: Healthcare Economist · Medicare Fraud: $630 million http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-429 Healthcare Economist · Medicare Fraud: $630 million Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:51:40 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-429 [...] Medicare pays extra cash to hospitals for the very sick and very expensive patients they call outliers.  In the St. Barnabas case, the fraud occurred when the hospital chain inflated the bills of these outliers.  For those who say that ‘this is just the thing that happens when hospitals only look at the bottom line’ it is interesting to note that St. Barnabas is listed as a non-profit hospital chain.  I wrote in March questioning the validity of tax breaks for non-profit hospitals and this evidence helps to buttress my argument.  Patrick Burns, an analyst at Taxpayers Against Fraud, stated: “The way the system has operated, it’s almost irresponsible corporate governance for hospitals not to cheat Medicare.” [...] [...] Medicare pays extra cash to hospitals for the very sick and very expensive patients they call outliers.  In the St. Barnabas case, the fraud occurred when the hospital chain inflated the bills of these outliers.  For those who say that ‘this is just the thing that happens when hospitals only look at the bottom line’ it is interesting to note that St. Barnabas is listed as a non-profit hospital chain.  I wrote in March questioning the validity of tax breaks for non-profit hospitals and this evidence helps to buttress my argument.  Patrick Burns, an analyst at Taxpayers Against Fraud, stated: “The way the system has operated, it’s almost irresponsible corporate governance for hospitals not to cheat Medicare.” [...]

]]> By: Anonymousy http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-332 Anonymousy Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:04:17 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-332 P.S. If you can get this information out to anyone in need of the help, PLEASE spread the word. http://www.illinoisprobono.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=728 Fight the bastards! P.S.

If you can get this information out to anyone in need of the help, PLEASE spread the word.

http://www.illinoisprobono.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.dsp_content&contentID=728

Fight the bastards!

]]> By: Anonymousy http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-331 Anonymousy Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:00:17 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-331 Oh my goodness. Now the medical collections agencies are trying to reivent themselves as offering to help find charity care eligible accounts. However, they're still supplying the predatory lending service if the client wants that. Read carefully: www.rpmstaff.com As long as it is legal for the non-profits to continue to utilize that resource, acting as de facto loan brokers for the financial services industry by steering poor people towards high interest loans to help pay bills they already cannot afford, then shouldn't these non-profit hospitals just be required to pay their taxes already? I don't see what's so charitable about steering sick people to predatory lenders so they end up paying even MORE money. And, of course, these agencies get a nice cut, right? Hmmm. Isn't that special? Oh my goodness. Now the medical collections agencies are trying to reivent themselves as offering to help find charity care eligible accounts.

However, they’re still supplying the predatory lending service if the client wants that.

Read carefully:

http://www.rpmstaff.com

As long as it is legal for the non-profits to continue to utilize that resource, acting as de facto loan brokers for the financial services industry by steering poor people towards high interest loans to help pay bills they already cannot afford, then shouldn’t these non-profit hospitals just be required to pay their taxes already? I don’t see what’s so charitable about steering sick people to predatory lenders so they end up paying even MORE money. And, of course, these agencies get a nice cut, right? Hmmm. Isn’t that special?

]]> By: Anonymous http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-183 Anonymous Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:54:20 +0000 http://healthcare-economist.com/2006/03/19/should-non-profit-hospitals-get-a-tax-break/#comment-183 Here's some real info on how these so-called "non-profit" hospitals "harass the poor." http://www.consumerlaw.org/news/content/medicaldebt.pdf This is terrible! Not only are there apparently a bunch of skanky, sleazy characters working IN those collection agencies that harass the poor (low class, habitual marijuana users and that type of trash), but some of these agencies and/or their hospital clients are pushing indebted patients into the hands of sleazy predatory lenders, too! Ick! What sleaze in this biz. Here’s some real info on how these so-called “non-profit” hospitals “harass the poor.”

http://www.consumerlaw.org/news/content/medicaldebt.pdf

This is terrible! Not only are there apparently a bunch of skanky, sleazy characters working IN those collection agencies that harass the poor (low class, habitual marijuana users and that type of trash), but some of these agencies and/or their hospital clients are pushing indebted patients into the hands of sleazy predatory lenders, too! Ick! What sleaze in this biz.

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