Health information management

1. How can the Greater Anchorage (Alaska) and Barnes Hospital (Missouri) courts take two nearly identical tax laws, apply them to situations with virtually identical facts, and arrive at opposite conclusions? Is this fair? 2. Which of the two interpretations do you find more persuasive? 3. Would it matter if the property in question were owned by a for-profit company but leased to Barnes Hospital for the same purposes? 4. What if a daily- or hourly-fee parking garage used by employees, patients, families, and visitors were located on a parcel of land owned by and adjacent to the hospital property? Would that be an exempt use in Alaska or Missouri? Would it matter who got the receipts from the parking garage or what fees were charged? Does your answer change if the garage could also be used by patrons of local businesses that are not related to the hospital?

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