Charity Care and Community Benefits for 2011
- Texas is one of 18 "Community Benefit States" that require nonprofit hospitals to invest a portion of their annual revenue to benefit local communities.
- The Texas Legislature enacted the law in 1993 to establish minimum levels of charity care that must be provided by nonprofit hospitals to retain their tax-exempt status and to establish uniform planning, budgeting and reporting requirements relating to charity care and community benefit activities of non-profit hospitals.
- Charity care must satisfy one of three standards (Hospital systems are allowed to satisfy standards on a consolidated basis):
- Charity care and community benefits must be provided in a combined amount equal to at least 5 percent of net patient revenue with charity care and government-sponsored indigent health care equal to at least 4 percent of net patient revenue and community benefits equal to 1 percent.
- Charity care and government-sponsored indigent health care are provided in an amount equal to 100 percent of a hospital's tax-exempt benefits, excluding federal income tax.
- Charity care and government-sponsored indigent health care are provided at a level that is reasonable in relation to community needs, the available resources of the hospital and the tax-exempt benefits it receives.
| Charity Care |
|
| Patient charity care provided |
$145,581,949
|
| Cost of unreimbursed government-sponsored indigent health care |
$17,816,432
|
| Charity care provided through others |
$64,476,774
|
|
Sub-total Charity Care
|
$227,875,155
|
| Other Community Benefit Care |
|
| Unreimbursed Medicare |
$477,948,889
|
| Community Benefits |
|
|
Community Health Improvement Program, Cash and In-Kind Donations,
Value of Employee Volunteer Hours
|
$13,351,949 |
| Grand Total |
$719,175,993 |
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