© 2019 Waystar Health. All rights reserved. as a charitable entity Author: Steve Levin, Chief Strategy Officer, Waystar SEE YOUR REV CYCLE DIFFERENTLY2 In June 2015, a New Jersey tax court ruled that Morristown Medical Center failed to meet the legal test for nonprofit status and owed property taxes on their facility. Following the Morristown Medical Center ruling, thirty-five other New Jersey municipalities filed tax appeals against thirty-five nonprofit hospitals. In Washington State, a class action against Northwest Hospital & Medical Center claims the hospital “fails to properly screen poor patients eligible for charity care” and sent their debts to collection instead. Not only were those actions outside the Affordable Care Act requirements, the lawsuit claims, they w

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