title: Tax-exempts feeling the heat.
abstract: Should government change decades-old tax codes to require that not-for-profit hospitals prove they deserve their tax exemptions? Healthcare Corp. has suggested that tax codes be re-examined because some not-for-profits provide less charity care than the value of their tax exemptions.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Greene
mesh_terms: D002608:Charities; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000191:economics*; D004465:Economic Competition; D006777:Hospitals, Proprietary / Q000191:economics; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D008489:Medical Indigency; D013660:Taxes / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014481:United States