Notes

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trove exists to make widely cited but hard-to-use public healthcare data queryable. These notes are what turned up along the way — each one written from the published tables, with the filters stated and links to the underlying filings so you can check it yourself.

Findings

CMS × IRS · July 2026

Nonprofit hospitals report charity care to two federal regulators. The numbers don't match.

Yale New Haven Hospital reported $113.1M in financial assistance to the IRS and $35.6M in charity care to CMS for the same fiscal year, on a comparable expense base. Of the 99 hospitals where the comparison is genuinely apples-to-apples, 22 differ by more than 50%. A gap is not an accusation — the two forms define charity care differently — but until now there was no fast way to check it for a specific hospital.

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