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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1992                   TAG: 9201290214
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

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TEAM TO INVESTIGATE HOSPITALS' FINANCES

Gov. Douglas Wilder has sent five state employees to find out how much money the state's non-profit hospitals are earning, as well as how much they pay their executives, state officials said Tuesday.

As part of his effort to promote his proposed tax on health-care providers, Wilder on Monday sent the employees to peruse federal tax forms of acute-care, non-profit hospitals.

The hospitals' tax forms are public information. Wilder has said he will take steps to prevent hospitals and nursing homes from passing on the tax to patients.

- Associated Press

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