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Charity Care

• Illinois Community Benefit Act: Value of Benefits Provided to the Community (2010)
   
• Hospital Uninsured Patient Discount Act (3/3/09)
  • Illinois General Assembly - Full Text of Public Act 095-0965
     
• Fair Patient Billing Act
   
• IHA Letter on Hospital Charity Care (Chicago Sun-Times, 3/30/10)
   
• Hospitals Caring for Communities (AHA Resource)
   
• Supreme Court to Review Provena Tax-Exemption Case (11/26/08)
   
• Preparing for the New IRS 990: It's No Longer Just a Finance Document (6/3/08)
   
• IHA Comment Letter on IRS Form 990 (5/29/08)
   
• IHA's Provena Appellate Court Amicus Brief (1/29/08)
   
• Final Revised Draft of IRS Form 990 (1/10/08)
   
• Associations Challenge Assessor's Valuation of Tax-Exempt Hospitals in Cook County
   
• Care in Action: How the People and Programs of America's Tax-Exempt Hospitals Benefit Their Communities Every Day (AHA)
   
• IHA Letter on Hospital Community Benefits (Daily Southtown)
   
• HFMA Issues Guidelines for Reporting Charity Care and Bad Debt (AHA News Now)
   
• In Support of Hospital Property Tax Exemption
   
• Hospital Charity Care: Working Toward a Reasonable Approach
   
• Suggested Hospital Talking Points (password required)
   
• Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: To Put it Charitably, Hospital Proposal Isn't Fair
   
• IHA Analysis of Flawed Report on Hospitals' Tax-Exempt Value and Charity Care 
  - Press Release: Report Acknowledges Hospitals Provide Community Benefits More Than Five Times Their Tax-Exempt Value
   
• Report of the Task Force on Charity Care and Collection Practices for the Uninsured of the IHA and MCHC
  The Voluntary Guidelines on charity and collections adopted by the IHA and MCHC Boards in September 2003.
   
• CMS Guidance on Providing Discounts to the Uninsured
  - Feb. 19, 2004 press release that includes letter to the AHA
  - CMS Questions and Answers Issued on Feb. 19, 2004
  - Feb. 2004 CMS Transmittal Article on Uninsured
   
• American Hospital Association (AHA members only - requires password from AHA)
  Information on charity issues around the United States and federal activity on uninsured billing and collections.
   
• Acts of Charity: Charity Care Strategies for Hospitals in a Changing Landscape (PriceWaterhouseCoopers publication)
   
• Healthcare Financial Management Association’s Patient Friendly Billing Project
  This document contains useful information on improving financial assistance policies for the uninsured.
   
• HFMA Resource Library (Collection of articles, fact sheets, links, presentations, regulatory, reports, and tools & measures) From the drop down menu, choose the topic and then the type of content you wish to view.
  - Reimbursement - Uninsured
  - Revenue Cycle - Billing & Collection
   
• The Self-Sufficiency Standard
  This document contains, detailed by Illinois county, information on how much money working adults need to meet their basic needs. This information may be useful in the development of charity and medical indigence policies.

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