Media Mentions
2008
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the June 4 issue of BNA's Daily Tax Report in an article regarding the new IRS commensurate test found in IRS Rev. Rul. 64-182. "All of this hand wringing is an overreaction. People are taking a couple of words that have been in widespread use and acting like it's something new," Mr. Mancino said.
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
Douglas M. Mancino was quoted on March 5 in a PR Newswire article regarding a benefit gala for the Children’s Burn Foundation that raised more than $875,000 for burn survivors and prevention. "We are privileged to have raised these funds through the dynamic efforts of The Council who worked tirelessly to ensure that the Foundation can continue to do its important work," Mr. Mancino said. Mr. Mancino is also the chairman of the board of the Children's Burn Foundation. Mr. Mancino was also quoted in Pharma Investments, Ventures & Law Weekly and Pharma Business Week.
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the January 1, 2008 issue Health Law360 in an article regarding the fight over the property tax exemption of a nonprofit hospital health case. The loser will undoubtedly appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, which hasn't considered such an issue in decades. For a health care facility, the tax exemption is "hugely important," Mr. Mancino said.
2007
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the November 23 issue of Tax Analysts addressing several court cases involving tax-exempt organizations that he addressed at a conference sponsored by the IRS and Loyola Law School. "In Illinois the head of the state's Department of Revenue made it a mission to expand the property tax base or to force hospitals in the state of Illinois to provide considerably greater levels of charity care, notwithstanding the absence of a statutory requirement to that effect," Mr. Mancino said.
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the November 12 issue of Modern Healthcare in an article regarding nationwide rules for how not-for-profit hospitals count and disclose what they give back to communities. "Frankly, the regulators as well as the legislators will start making judgments once a uniform federal standard is in widespread use. Scrutiny will continue as the public gains access to data that can be compared from one year to the next, from one hospital to the next," Mr. Mancino said.
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the September 20 article published by CNN in an article regarding donations sent to the Children’s Burn Foundation for a young Iraqi boy who was doused in gasoline by masked men and set on fire. "I'm just blown away by the outpouring of support for this boy and this family," said Mr. Mancino, the foundation's board chairman. "I've never seen anything like it."
Douglas Mancino was quoted in an August 14 article published in The Recorder in regards to representing the LA Dodgers new charity, "ThinkCure", a charity that will raise funds for cancer research at City of Hope and Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. "They’re promoting it as the official charity of the Dodgers. They’re very interested in finding a cure. This is a major piece of the fabric of L.A., so it’s wonderful to be associated with it," Mr. Mancino said.
2006
Doug Mancino and Christopher Jedrey were quoted in the July 5 issue of Tax Notes Today in an article discussing reactions to a recent questionnaire the IRS sent to tax-exempt hospitals inquiring about compensation practices and how much community benefits provide. "While the questionnaire asks good questions, answering some of them calls for multifaceted responses that don’t lend themselves to easy yes-or-no answers," said Mr. Mancino. Chris Jedrey also mentioned that he thinks bad debt is often synonymous with charity care. "I understand why the IRS wants to treat them as separate and distinct. However, a lot of hospitals don’t see a ‘clear bright line’ between bad debt and charity care," Mr. Jedrey added.
Christopher M. Jedrey, Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
Doug Mancino was quoted in the June 28 issue of The New York Times in an article regarding the problematic new practice of private doctors: they set up tax-exempt charities from which drug companies and medical device makers gain millions of dollars a year in donations. Mr. Mancino stated that these small organizations are off the radar screen; problems would occur when donations go toward expenditures normally a part of the practice's business cost. "If they're really underwriting normal business expenses to the group, then I think you have a problem," he mentioned.
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
Doug Mancino was quoted in the February 20 issue of Modern Healthcare in the article, "Keeping the Heat On," regarding continued scrutiny of health care organizations by the Internal Revenue Service. Mr. Mancino said the reason that the soft-contact audits—the initial inquiries from the IRS—haven't resulted in more penalties is that most hospital compensation practices are fairly well-advanced and already meet compliance requirements. "These audits exposed some flaws," he said.
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
Doug Mancino was quoted in the February 20 issue of Modern Healthcare in the article, "More Scrutiny from Team IRS," regarding continued "coordinated examination procedure" audits of hospitals and other tax-exempt organizations. Mr. Mancino said the standards remain the same for the comprehensive CEP audits, now know as "team examinations," which typically scrutinize everything on a tax-exempt organization’s IRS Form 990. But the selection criteria for organizations targeted for an audit are less complex.
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
2005
Doug Mancino was quoted in the January 6 issue of Health Law Reporter in an article regarding a review by the IRS of executive compensation arrangements utilized by tax-exempt organizations to reward their top officers. Although no cases have surfaced yet, lawyers representing nonprofit health care organizations will be watching this area closely in 2005. Mr. Mancino stated that the attention to the health care industry's practices makes sense "seeing as hospital executives are among the most highly compensated in the [charity] sector."
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax, Tax Exemption
2004
Doug Mancino was quoted in the July 23 issue of Tax Analysts in an article regarding the meeting in which members of exempt organizations discussed the proposed reforms by the Senate Finance Committee for tax-exempt organizations. According to Mr. Mancino, there was a common agreement among these speakers that greater disclosure and more effective enforcement are preferable to major legislative changes.
Douglas M. Mancino, Tax, Tax Exemption
Doug Mancino was quoted in the June 14 edition of the Houston Chronicle in an article regarding the corporation that The Methodist Hospital has created that puts it in direct competition with long-time partner Baylor College of Medicine. "This corporation will cause doctors to have to make a decision," said Mr. Mancino. "It is the hospital's way of saying 'You're either in our company or the other company.'"
Doug Mancino was mentioned in the May 3 issue of Tax Notes in regards to asking Lawrence Brauer, a tax law specialist, if the IRS would look at the creditworthiness of the person receiving the loan when making an excess benefit determination. The article was reporting on the April 29 conference sponsored by Georgetown University Law Center and the Council in Foundations regarding representing and managing tax exempt organizations.
Douglas M. Mancino, Tax, Tax Exemption
The February issue of Los Angeles Magazine contained an advertising supplement listing Southern California "Super Lawyers." Gordon Greenberg, Steve Kroft, Paul Lawrence and Doug Mancino were listed among the California Super Lawyers. The Super Lawyers lists the top 5% attorneys in Southern California as a result of a unbiased poll conducted by Super Lawyers, an independent publication.
Gordon A. Greenberg, Paul F. Lawrence, Douglas M. Mancino
2002
Douglas Mancino was quoted in the August 14 issue of The Wall Street Journal in regard the Gates Foundation and its possible conflict of interest in relation to Cox Communications. The Gates Foundation, whose sole trustee is Bill Gates of Microsoft, recently made a significant investment in Cox Communications when Microsoft is currently in talks with Cox Communications in an effort to create a partnership that could deliver high-speed internet services to Cox's cable customers. Mr. Mancino said the investment may raise questions but unless you can connect that the investment is influencing Cox in its business dealings with Microsoft, there are no legal problems.
Douglas Mancino was mentioned in the March 8 issue of Tax Notes Today. Mr. Mancino told Tax Analysts that in a ruling by the Tax Court against three Utah-based HMOs, the Court misapplied the law by using an incorrect definition of "charitable."
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
Doug Mancino was quoted in the January 28 issue of Modern Healthcare, which addressed the impact of tax exemptions on hospitals. Mr. Mancino predicted that hospital board members will need a heightened sensitivity with the new requirements and sanctions.
Douglas M. Mancino, Health, Tax Exemption
2001
Doug Mancino was quoted in the March 19 issue of Modern Healthcare concerning the IRS's policy development requiring not-for-profit hospitals to prove they give service to the poor in order to maintain tax-exempt status.
