Indiana passes law threatening non-profit status of expensive hospitals

Landmark legislation follows local uproar over a Guardian investigation into a major non-profit's high prices

Indiana's governor, Mike Braun, has signed a landmark bill that would strip charity hospitals of their non-profit status if they continue to charge high prices.

The legislation, the first of its kind in the United States, followed uproar across the state after a Guardian series in October that investigated how one major Indiana non-profit hospital system bought up its competition, then hiked its prices, leaving businesses and patients struggling to pay their medical costs.