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Nonprofit Health Inc.

• Mission and Purpose
• Questions to Ask When Evaluating Whether Your Nonprofit Health Entity is Living up to its Mission (PDF)
• Nonprofit Hospitals and Charity Care
• Protecting and Promoting Charity Care
• It's All in Numbers (PDF)
• Consumers Union Model FAIR Care Model Bill (PDF)
• Compendium of Free Care Laws (PDF)
• Consumers Union’s Model FAIR Care Hospital Policy (PDF)
• Senate Finance Committee Discussion Draft (PDF)
• Consumers Union's letter to Senate Finance Committee 2007 (PDF)
• San Francisco (PDF)
• Nassau (PDF)
• Suffolk (PDF)
• Nonprofit Health_entities and Community Benefits
• Compendium of Community Benefits laws (PDF)
• Defending Community Benefits in a Changing Health Care World (PDF)
• Massachusetts HMO Guidelines (PDF)
• Massachusetts Hospital Guidelines (PDF)
• Ownership
• Lundgren Letter to Sharp (PDF)
• Use of Assets
• Health Plans’ Surplus
• The Pennsylvania Story
• Brief to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department (PDF)
• Report to the Pennsylvania Insurance Department Concerning the Applications of Blue Cross Plans for the Approval of Reserves and Surplus (PDF)
• Supplemental Report.pdf (PDF)
• Executive Compensation
• How Much Is Too Much (PDF)
• Dissolution
• Tax Status
• Blue Cross
• Affidavit of the author of A History of BCBS (PDF)
• BCBS & Tax Reform (PDF)
• Statement from the Congressional Record (PDF)

Conversions 101

• Consumers Union’s Model Conversion Act (PDF)
• Issues Raised When a Nonprofit Hospital or Health Insurer Proposes (PDF)
• Nonprofit Health Sector: History and Trends
• Legal Context
• Toolkit for Creating Consumer Participation in Policy Decisions (PDF)
• Consumers Union’s Model Conversion Act (PDF)
• NAAG Model Act for Nonprofit Health Conversions (PDF)
• Questions to Ask When Evaluating Legislation (PDF)
• Doctrines and Remedies
• Charitable Trust
• Keeping the Trust (PDF)
• Banner Health System v. Lawrence E. Long (PDF)
• CU Amicus- Banner (PDF)
• You Can’t Take the $ and Run (PDF)
• Cy Pres
• Applying the Charitable Trust and Cy Pres Doctrines
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield: A Historical Compilation (PDF)
• Examples of Decisions Holding BCBS to Charitable Trust (PDF)
• Constructive Trust Remedy
• Recognizing a conversion
• Consumers Union’s Model Conversion Act (PDF)
• Easily Identifiable Conversions
• Other Conversions
• RightChoice Press releases (PDF)
• RightChoice Court Decision (PDF)
• Joint Ventures
• Mutualization to Demutualization
• Causes (PDF)
• Public Impacts (PDF)

Community Involvement

• Not in the Public Interest Insurance Commissioners in Washington and Alaska Reject Premera (PDF)
• Issues Raised When a Nonprofit Proposes to Convert (PDF)
• Identifying Allies
• Strength in Numbers (PDF)
• The Regulators Perspective
• Regulators Play a Critical Role
• Your Relationship With the Regulators
• Checklist of Questions to Ask Your Regulator (PDF)
• Public Disclosure
• Consumers Union’s Model Nonprofit Conversion (PDF)
• NAAG Model Act for Nonprofit Health Conversions (PDF)
• Take Steps to Ensure Public Disclosure
• Examples of Success: States Recognize that Public Disclosure is Essential
• Formal Participation and Funding
• Toolkit for Creating Consumer Participation in Policy Decisions (PDF)
• Public Hearings
• Using the Media
• Media Advocacy Tips (PDF)
• Press Releases (PDF)
• Letters to the Editor (PDF)
• Sample Ads (PDF)
• Gathering Information about the Conversion
• Information about the Parties
• Recommendations for Gathering Information about a Converting Hospital (PDF)
• Using the Articles of Incorporation and Bylaws
• Determining Fair Market Value
• Gerald Kominski, Techniques for Determining the Value of Health Care Organizations (PDF)
• Is the Selling Price Too Low? (PDF)
• CO Bidding Wars (PDF)
• Preserving Competition
• FTC’s letter to the Louisiana Attorney General (PDF)
• FTC – proper role of competition (PDF)
• Preventing Private Inurement and Benefit
• IRS Revenue Ruling 69-383 (PDF)
• Measuring the Health Impact of the Conversion
• Looking at the Full Picture (PDF)
• Premera Conversion Study 1 (PDF)
• Premera Supplemental Report –Aaron Katz (PDF)
• Price Waterhouse Economic Analysis (PDF)
• Press Release- St. Luke’s (PDF)
• Impact Statement- St. Luke’s (PDF)
• Specific Considerations for Hospitals
• Property Restrictions
• Fair Market Value: Preventing the Seller from Imposing Restrictions on Health Services
• SB 932 (PDF)
• Nonprofit Hospitals and Charity Care
• Protecting and Promoting Charity Care
• It's All in Numbers (PDF)
• Consumers Union Model FAIR Care Model Bill (PDF)
• Compendium of Free Care Laws (PDF)
• Consumers Union’s Model FAIR Care Hospital Policy (PDF)
• Senate Finance Committee Discussion Draft (PDF)
• Consumers Union's letter to Senate Finance Committee 2007 (PDF)
• San Francisco (PDF)
• Nassau (PDF)
• Suffolk (PDF)
• Obtaining Service Guarantees
• Guaranteeing Capital Improvements
• Preserving Assets
• Doctrines and Remedies
• Charitable Trust
• Keeping the Trust (PDF)
• Banner Health System v. Lawrence E. Long (PDF)
• CU Amicus- Banner (PDF)
• You Can’t Take the $ and Run (PDF)
• Cy Pres
• Applying the Charitable Trust and Cy Pres Doctrines
• Blue Cross and Blue Shield: A Historical Compilation (PDF)
• Examples of Decisions Holding BCBS to Charitable Trust (PDF)
• Constructive Trust Remedy
• Community Responsive Foundations
• Building and Maintaining Strong Foundations (PDF)
• Model Articles of Incorporation (PDF)
• Model Bylaws (PDF)
• Advancing Accountability (PDF)
• Voting & Advisory Roles for Community Members
• Community Advisory Committees & Examples (PDF)
• Making The Most out of Community Advisory Committees (PDF)
• Supporting Organizations
Creating Supporting Organizations (PDF)
• After the Conversion