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Andy Miller, KFF Health News

Andy Miller, KFF Health News

Andy Miller, KFF Health News senior editor, has been a health care journalist for 29 years.

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As nonprofit hospitals reap big tax breaks, states scrutinize their required charity spending

By: and - July 18, 2023

POTTSTOWN, Pa. — The public school system here had to scramble in 2018 when the local hospital, newly purchased, was converted to a tax-exempt nonprofit entity. The takeover by Tower Health meant the 219-bed Pottstown Hospital no longer had to pay federal and state taxes. It also no longer had to pay local property taxes, […]