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Finance: AMA Pushes For Charity Care Accountability

The NonProfit Times

Image from [link] Members of the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to support greater oversight of nonprofit hospitals and standardization of charity care policies so financial assistance reaches patients in need. Hospitals are eligible for nonprofit status, which exempts them from income, property, and sales taxes.

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Closing Care Gaps: Physician Shortages, Medical Deserts, and Health Disparities

NonProfit Quarterly

However, in the United States, the number of physicians and surgeons—including specific medical and surgical specialties that are vital for vulnerable populations—is in decline. Some of the medical and surgical specialties that treat conditions more common in older Americans…are among those most significantly impacted by potential shortages.

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Is Your Health Insurer Breaking the Law?

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: AntonioGuillem on istock.com Despite hundreds of state laws meant to protect health insurance consumers—patients, in other words—from denials of legitimate claims for coverage, health insurers are routinely flouting these laws and illegally denying coverage in even life-threatening situations.

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The Next 4 Years: Tapping Into Nonprofit Expertise

The NonProfit Times

Leading the nation’s largest homebuilder, Reckford gathers partners to bring grocery stores to food deserts, medical care to those neighborhoods and he won’t need to be brought up to speed. She teams with and coordinates with other environmental nonprofits to use every law on the books to battle climate change and polluters.

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Encouraging Human Creativity in the AI-Powered Future

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Yet, crucially, these feats are only possible because AI has been created by humans for particular human purposes and trained on diverse, high-quality datasets, including medical journals, market reports, and musical compositions, all of them products of human creativity and expertise.

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Minding the Gaps: Neuroethics, AI, and Depression

NonProfit Quarterly

2 In this way and many others, AI could facilitate exponentially faster, and more significant, medical advances. 3 By law, these must remain anonymous when used. It is by no accident that the US medical system has ended up where it is. Neuroscientists are increasingly harnessing artificial intelligence to advance their work.

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Newsletter: How a Business Should Pick a Cause Partner ; Why Asking for Donations at the Cash Register Can Backfire ; A Baby Boomer Curator of Natural History is Killing It on TikTok

Selfish Giving

a pharmacy has to partner with a nonprofit that funds medical research). Because campaign laws make it difficult to give them the clothes, they are renting the outfits to them instead. But I don't think that businesses always have to choose something that "fits" their business (e.g. Choose something different and get noticed!