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The Washington Reporter recently wrote about a hospital transparency bill advancing through the Ways and Means Committee that would require nonprofit hospitals to provide greater transparency into how they use billions of dollars in taxpayer-supported benefits.

Ahead of the hearing, watchdog group Save Our States launched atelevision advertisement targeting what it called the “runaway tax-exempt hospital system.” The group also released a“Glitz and Glam” report highlighting 14 examples of tax-exempt hospitals that it argues “betray patients” by “paying massive salaries to top executives and pursuing other dubious spending priorities.” The Reporter previously covered that Save Our States hosted an off-the-Hill happy hour for Trump administration and Capitol Hill staff to discuss the report’s findings. 

Save Our States Executive Director Trent England also outlined the campaign in aletter to Vice President JD Vance, arguing that the tax-exempt hospital system should become a target of the administration’s broader efforts to root out waste, fraud, and abuse that harms American taxpayers.

Read the full article at the Washington Reporter.