title: Surviving the heat. At Senate, House hearings, lawmakers ask tough questions of high-profile execs regarding tax-exemption status, charity.
abstract: After hospital executives trooped to Capitol Hill hearings last week to defend their billing and collection practices for the uninsured, the threat of immediate action to regulate pricing and charity care seemed to pass. The AHA's David Bernd, left, argued that not-for-profits' mission is much wider than just indigent care.
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Tieman
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fong
mesh_terms: D000573:American Hospital Association; D002608:Charities / Q000191:economics; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations / Q000191:economics*; D006788:Hospitals, Voluntary / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration; D017057:Medically Uninsured; D010350:Patient Credit and Collection; D011057:Politics; D019464:Tax Exemption / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017664:Uncompensated Care / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States