Forty percent of nonprofit hospitals fall short of meeting the community health needs assessment requirements put in place in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a JAMA Network Open study, Healthcare Finance reports.
The study says that by not fulfilling these mandates, a significant portion of nonprofit hospitals put their tax-exempt status at risk.
In a cross-sectional study of 500 randomly selected nonprofit hospitals in the U.S., just 60% of them had both a CHNA and corresponding implementation strategies that were publicly available online. Read more.
