Exposing Hospital Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
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Hospital prices have jumped more than 250% since 2000, and former Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt says it’s time to put hospitals under the same scrutiny other parts of healthcare have faced for years.
His focus: prices, transparency and nonprofit accountability.
Read more in DC Journal.
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In my experience, it’s usually the insurance company protecting me from completely insane hospital bills.
Hospital: “That cost $200,000.”
Insurance: “The most we’ll let you charge for that is $800.”
Hospital: “Okay.”
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We aren’t the only ones worried about hospital mergers.
The FTC is warning that financial distress doesn’t give hospitals a free pass to merge at the expense of patients.
Good. Regulators should keep the pressure on and stop deals that mean higher costs and less competition.
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The doctor is back in. 🏥💊🧑⚕️
Our third diagnosis takes us to Houston, where HCA bought Cypress Fairbanks, promised greater access, and then 20 months later turned a 181-bed hospital into a 27-bed emergency room.
Diagnosis: consolidation. Prognosis: fewer services, farther to travel.
Regulators should require post-merger checkups, not just pre-deal promises.
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Hospital costs consume more than 40 cents of every premium dollar, which accounts for the largest share of any category.
You can’t fix healthcare affordability without confronting hospital prices.
Policymakers should demand more transparency, competition and accountability from hospitals.
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A new AHIP analysis shows the majority of Americans’ premium dollars go toward paying the high and sharply rising prices charged by hospital systems and drugmakers, which together account for nearly two-thirds of Americans’ healthcare dollar. ahip.org/news/articles/nearl…
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The symptoms of hospital consolidation are hard to miss. 🦠📷
At Ballad Health: soaring margins, fewer staff, shrinking access and falling patient ratings.
Eight years after the merger, the chart tells the story.
Read our latest diagnosis report:
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Maryland has the rate book. Patients are still missing the price tag.
In @mdreporter, Peter Pitts explains why patients deserve clear, usable prices before care, rather than after the bill arrives.
Annapolis must act and make hospital price transparency the statewide standard.
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The doctor is in. 🩺
Our first patient: Mission Health in North Carolina, seven years after HCA’s acquisition.
We checked the chart: more profit, higher prices, fewer staff, slower EMS handoffs, and less charity care.
Diagnosis: critical.
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We’re diagnosing hospital consolidation, one market at a time, free of charge, for the community benefit.
No facility fee. No surprise bill.
Our new series will examine what happened after hospitals consolidated in communities across the country: prices, competition, charity care and who actually benefited.
First diagnosis coming soon.
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Five or fewer hospital systems control at least half the market in 42 states and D.C.
That’s not competition. That’s a cartel with a billing department.
Break up Big Hospital. Patients first.
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PRA’s new report found that only 18% of hospitals reviewed posted prices in usable dollars and cents for at least half of the items and services in their pricing file, and the majority of hospitals reviewed failed to even comply with federal price transparency rules.
Patients need access to actual, upfront prices so they're empowered to shop for care and avoid overcharges!
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Atrium Health’s top executives saw pay rise an average of 21% last year as the system posted record revenue, and now it wants to combine with WakeMed.
Meanwhile, the State Health Plan already pays Atrium 15–40% more than WakeMed for the same services.
Wake County commissioners should demand binding price protections before approving any deal.
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Hospital consolidation is not just about getting bigger. It can mean fewer choices, more market power and higher prices for patients.
Our latest blog looks at how hospital systems are reshaping local healthcare markets, and why policymakers should act before more competition disappears.
Congress should strengthen oversight and move site-neutral reforms forward.
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Fewer than 1 in 5 of America’s biggest hospitals publicize dollar prices for more than half of their services.
Federal law requires hospital price transparency, and the CMS has warned noncompliant hospitals: “post your prices or pay the penalty.”
Now the question is whether Congress will go further to strengthen transparency requirements.
Read Paige Winfield Cunningham’s latest in The Washington Sun on hospitals’ continued resistance to price transparency.
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A new study of 150 hospitals that went from for-profit to nonprofit found no meaningful increase in charity care, while uncompensated care fell about 4%.
If hospitals want the tax break, the public should be able to see the benefit.
Congress and states should set clear, measurable standards for nonprofit hospitals.
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Hospital price transparency has become a rare point of bipartisan agreement in Washington. Bills have advanced in both the House and Senate.
Now Congress should put them on the floor and vote.
Our latest on why this is the moment to act:
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Cynthia A. Fisher of @PtRightsAdvoc and @realartlaffer make the case in @realDailyWire: price transparency can lower costs, strengthen competition and protect patients from overcharges.
Congress should pass the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act and Health DATA Act.
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