An Illinois health care system plans to appeal a court ruling involving whether hospitals should pay taxes. Urbana-based Carle health system says it will appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court before a Feb. 9 deadline.
Carle says its tax-exempt status allows it to provide charity care to low-income patients.
The Illinois 4th District Appellate Court ruled this month that part of a 2012 law allowing hospitals to avoid taxes is unconstitutional.
Champaign County moved this week to put hospitals back on its tax rolls.
State lawmakers gave hospitals tax-exempt status in a 2012 compromise. But the legislation may conflict with the Illinois Constitution, which allows tax exemptions only for property "used exclusively" for "charitable purposes."
