NPQ would love to hear what its readers who know mental health treatment think about this new development.

Although they showed a surplus last year and their revenue has increased quite significantly, leadership instability, continued demerits from audits and problems in meeting publicized goals have added to the troubles of this controversial organization.

In the months before the Affordable Care Act goes live, state governments are exploring their options concerning greater provision of healthcare.

Under the Affordable Care Act, the insurance exchanges are meant to give employers and individuals a number of competing providers. How will competition happen in states with nearly monopolistic market dominance by one provider?

Princeton economics professor Uwe Reinhardt asks a question of nonprofit hospitals that might be asked of all nonprofits: why do we make transparency so difficult to access?

Peace Corps volunteers overseas are distinct from Peace Corps staffers who work in the headquarters on 20^th Street in Washington, D.C. Because they aren’t staff, they can’t get abortion coverage.

The states that have rejected expanded Medicaid access for poor people have created unfathomable anomalies in health care coverage. Why couldn’t they have done the right thing and simply take the offer of expanded Medicaid coverage?

The merger of two large healthcare providers in Montana comes with some community-centered strings attached.

The story of two healthcare providers and their quest for unification has a lesson to teach about the sway that public relations can have over financial dealings.

Three years after President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law, some lawmakers are trying to thwart the health-care reforms it proscribes. This edition of the Cohen Report checks the vital signs of the ACA, with respect to the nonprofit sector.

Under the new Affordable Care Act, nonprofit hospitals must file community health needs assessments, but there are several common misconceptions about this requirement.

The American Psychological Association recently handed out its 2013 Psychologically Healthy Workplace Awards, and among the four winners this year was one nonprofit.

According to the National Association of Community Health Centers, budget sequestration could result in some 900,000 patients without access to regular healthcare.

Franz Kafka would have had difficulty designing a political and bureaucratic stalemate as deft as the Republicans’ rejection of any activity to help the Affordable Care Act meet its goals.

For those about to rock, these nonprofits salute you—and urge you to wear earplugs. But what’s a nonprofit to do when it raises awareness only to find that some of those who are aware just don’t care?

The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Federal Trade Commission has the authority to conduct an antitrust review of a merger between a for-profit hospital and a nonprofit hospital.

Big Bird, the most famous resident of “Sesame Street,” shunned the limelight during the presidential election, but now appears in a PSA with First Lady Michelle Obama.

As the U.S. moves from debating and legislating healthcare insurance reform to making it work for tens of millions of Americans, what role should nonprofits and their foundation backers play?

What is “social welfare?” This past election cycle, a slew of 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations bombarded the nation with anonymously funded campaign ads. A new lawsuit says the IRS shouldn’t have allowed this.

Facing a decision that may come with implications for healthcare reform across the U.S., tomorrow Montana will consider a pitch for the acquisition of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana by a large out-of-state corporation.

Mandated by the Affordable Care Act, community health needs assessments could be as little as a new piece of paperwork or as much as a potent tool to completely transform healthcare in America.

A new Obama administration proposal would exempt religious nonprofit employers from having to pay for contraception coverage while including coverage for employees who want it.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is now the largest living donor to an education institution, having donated $1.1 billion to Johns Hopkins University.

Massachusetts hospitals’ Medicare reimbursement rates that are now drawing protests from 21 states. The current framework allows all state rates to be determined by a hospital on Nantucket.

Budget cuts for mental health services manifest themselves in emergency rooms where wait times have expanded significantly, particularly for patients seeking psychiatric help.

In Chicago, Louis Groceries is working not just to provide healthy food in a “food desert” area, but to educate its customers to increase demand for nutritious options.

Electronic medical reports were projected to eventually save the U.S. healthcare system $81 billion annually. Instead, healthcare spending has continued to grow. What happened?

In the wake of California voters’ approval of a ballot measure capping executive pay at hospitals, El Camino Hospital is suing two employees who co-sponsored the ballot initiative.

Are there some fields in which nonprofits are the preferable form of enterprise? A growing number of people say health care may be a prime example.

Karen Handel, the former senior vice president for public policy at the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, accuses Planned Parenthood of campaigning for President Barack Obama.