Report: Indiana nonprofit hospitals get tax breaks while limiting charity care

(The Center Square) – A new report says many of Indiana’s nonprofit hospitals are driving up health care costs while failing to provide sufficient charity care – despite receiving about $1.3 billion a year in tax subsidies.

The report comes from Peter Pitts, a former FDA associate commissioner, and the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. It found that 66% of Indiana’s nonprofit hospitals spent less on community investment than the value of their tax breaks between 2020 and 2022.

That gap is known as a “fair share deficit,” according to the report.

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