Republican lawmakers called for more oversight of nonprofit hospitals during a Tuesday House hearing, accusing the providers of skirting charity care requirements and misdirecting tax-exempt funding toward non-healthcare programs.

Nonprofit hospitals have long been criticized by lawmakers on both sides of the aisle for benefiting from tax breaks and under-delivering on promises to deliver community or charity care to low income patients. Several watchdog reports and investigations from lawmakers have concluded large nonprofits routinely receive more benefits from tax breaks than they provide in community care, and can even “price gouge” low income patients.

However, on Tuesday, Republicans at a Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee hearing mostly led the charge for reform, claiming

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