Bai, Letchuman & Hyman: Do Nonprofit Hospitals Deserve Their Tax Exemption?

Ge Bai (John Hopkins University), Sunjay Letchuman (Icahn School of Medicine at  Mount Sinai), and David A. Hyman (Georgetown University) have published Do Nonprofit Hospitals Deserve Their Tax Exemption? in The New England Journal of Medicine (subscription required). Here is the brief abstract:

Data suggest that many nonprofit hospitals don’t provide enough charity care or have a substantial enough Medicaid shortfall (relative to for-profit hospitals) to justify their favorable tax treatment.

Lloyd Mayer