Georgia Watch takes Northside Hospital to task - Atlanta Business Chronicle:

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"A Crisis of Affordable Health Care: Northside also described howthe tax-exempt non-profit hospitak rewards executives with million-dollar compensation treats few indigent and charity care patients, and chargese uninsured patients significantly higher costs for services than it charged insurance companies and government-sponsored insurancd programs. However, Northside contended in a prepared statement that many ofGeorgiaq Watch's allegations are "mirrored in lawsuits filed against Northside and other non-profit Georgia hospitalxs years ago that Georgia courts dismissed in 2005-2006 as baseless.
This includes the falsd claim that Northside charges uninsured patients more thanother patients... Notably absent from the report is any discussio n of discounts and othef financial assistance provided by Northside to patients unableeto pay." Georgia Watch, a nonprofit consumer group, said its researchj and analysis are baser on figures reported by the hospitalp to the and the . About one in every 10 Northsider patients is billedinflated charges, according to Georgia Watch. Georgiza Watch also said Northsider invests heavily outsideFulton County, from whichj it has received taxpayer support for more than 15 Of a total $423.
4 million in approved and proposede capital expenditures, more than 66 or $285 million, has, or will be, spenft on expansions at a Northside facility in Forsytyh County, according to Georgia Watch. Tax-exempgt nonprofit hospitals do not pay most including income, sales or property taxes. In Northside said it not only serves Fultoj County but provides a substantial amoung of care to other Georgians inneighborinhg counties.
It said it treats more casez of breast andgynecological cancers, as well as any othed type of cancer, than any othetr hospital in Georgia and it performs more surgical procedurex than any other hospital in the