In the past two years, not-for-profit hospitals have faced increasing scrutiny from a variety of sources. Lawsuits alleging unfair billing practices for the uninsured, congressional hearings regarding hospitals' tax-exempt status, federal and state legislative policies regulating hospitals' provision of charity care and front-page articles in major newspapers outlining overly aggressive efforts to collect payments from uninsured patients have all conspired to put this healthcare sector on red alert.
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