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Report: Indiana nonprofit hospitals get tax breaks while limiting charity care
A new report reveals Indiana nonprofit hospitals receive $1.3 billion in annual tax breaks while failing to meet charity care and community investment goals.
By Tom Joyce · 2026-08-02T00:33:19.318Z
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 https://mr.cdn.ignitecdn.com/client assets/cmpiorg/media/attachments/6891/f261/708d/aa04/cc25/55e2/6891f261708daa04cc2555e2.pdf?1754395233 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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