Report: Taxpayer dollars help nonprofit hospitals pad executive salaries, pay for lawsuits

(The Center Square) – Waste and abuse take place in prominent nonprofit hospital systems across the country, a new report from conservative watchdog advocacy group Save Our States says in a report published Monday.

A hospital system qualifies as a nonprofit if it provides certain community benefits and charity care. Nonprofit hospital systems are exempt from federal income taxes and often from some state and local taxes, too, and many also receive taxpayer-funded government grants in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually. These hospital systems can sometimes provide minimal benefits meeting nonprofit status criteria while providing lavish salaries to hospital leadership and simultaneously executing mass layoffs, Save Our States alleges.