Charity Care and Bad Debt Reporting by Nonprofit Hospitals: Examination of Charity Care Thresholds for Tax-Exemption.
Document Type
Presentation
Presentation Date
8-12-2019
Abstract or Description
Presented at the 2019 AAA Annual Meeting We examine how the threat of losing income tax-exemption affects nonprofit hospitals’ uncompensated care misreporting behavior when the hospitals (i) are required to provide charity care subject to a minimum threshold in exchange of keeping the tax-exemption, (ii) are partially reimbursed for their bad debts, and (iii) can misrepresent their privately observed information regarding bad debts and charity care provided. Two different regimes of charity care thresholds are evaluated. Our model illustrates that an optimal charity care threshold policy does exist in certain situations. These findings may be used in future research to empirically examine specific hospital and manager behavio
Sponsorship/Conference/Institution
2019 AAA Annual Meeting
Recommended Citation
Lamboy-Ruiz, Melvin, Don Lien, Pamela Smith.
2019.
"Charity Care and Bad Debt Reporting by Nonprofit Hospitals: Examination of Charity Care Thresholds for Tax-Exemption.."
School of Accountancy Faculty Presentations.
Presentation 131.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/account-facpres/131
