A new report from OpenTheBooks.com highlights the absolute boondoggle that federal COVID assistance generated for the 20 largest “nonprofit” hospital corporations in the U.S.
The Wall Street Journal has done the world a service by blowing the whistle on one of the longest-held secrets in Washington – the 340B drug discount program is a lucrative profit-maker for rich, bloated hospital systems rather than a safety net for rural and inner city clinics that it was designed to be.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both released a bombshell series of reports, called They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay, Hospital System to Refund Poor Patients Who Were Entitled to Free Care and Hospitals Often Don’t Help Needy Patients, Even Those Who Qualify. These investigations describe a
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Today, the Biden Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a series of tough measures to crack down on hospitals that are brazenly flouting rules, in effect since January 1, requiring posting of previously secret negotiated and cash prices for every item and service they provide to patients. As part of the proposed annual
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AllBetter CEO Katy Talento discusses with Dr. Eric Larson how innovative employers, working with next-gen advisors, are delivering radical savings and more generous health benefits.
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AllBetter CEO Katy Talento and Johns Hopkins Business School Professor Ge Bai, PhD published an op-ed in MedPage Today about the many types of compensation that traditional health insurance brokers receive from their true clients – the carriers.
Today, three Democrat judges of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals laughed their way through a judicial smackdown of a ruling against AHA in favor of the Trump price transparency rule requiring hospitals to publicly post all their prices – including negotiated rates with insurers and discounted cash prices for the uninsured.
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