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Intermountain Health tells Davis County Commission it provides $27 million in local community benefits while requesting $1.9 million property-tax exemption
Summary
An Intermountain Health representative presented the health system's annual community-benefits report, told the commission it provided roughly $27 million in benefits to Davis County in 2023 and said the hospital's $1.9 million property-tax exemption is outweighed by those benefits; commissioners asked for clarifications on statewide vs. county figures and local programs.
An Intermountain Health representative told the Davis County Commission that the nonprofit health system requests a $1.9 million property-tax exemption for hospital areas that provide charity care and that, in 2023, Intermountain's work produced a substantially larger community benefit in Davis County.
"We ask for a small property tax exemption, and then in turn we want to show you how we fulfilled that and then some," the Intermountain Health representative said during the commission's meeting, describing the presentation as the organization's routine accountability report to taxing entities.
The presenter described how Intermountain calculates community benefit using "value adjusted care," which counts discounted rates the…
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