Wednesday, June 1, 2005 health care prices hospitals Intermountain Health Care More Accusations of Harsh Bill Collecting Tactics: Intermountain Health Care Intermountain Health Care (IHC, in Utah) is another large health care system that has been accused of employing harsh collection tactics aga...
executive compensation hospitals non-profit organizations More Fall-Out From Start of Congressional Hearings on Not-For-Profit Hospitals The beginning congressional investigations of not-for-profit hospitals' tax exemptions are raising interest in the business practices of...
Friday, May 27, 2005 hospitals non-profit organizations Should US Not-For-Profit Hospitals Lose Their Privileged Status? The Baltimore Sun reports that both the US House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee are opening en...
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Bellevue Hospital Center conflicts of interest hospitals Mismanagement "Another Guy Who Ethically Ran Amok": Bellevue Hospital Executive Fired The New York Times reports yet another hospital chief executive leaving in disgrace. Carlos F. Perez, executive director of Bellevue Hospita...
Monday, May 23, 2005 health care prices hospitals From Nevada, More on Hospitals' List Prices The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on the high cost of hospitalization in Nevada, where it asserted hospital charges are currently the hi...
Sunday, May 22, 2005 health care prices hospitals Secret Hospital "List Prices" Revealed in San Jose A real health care market would require we have informed consumers who can make rational decisions. We have shown how some hospitals seem to...
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Thursday, May 5, 2005 health care prices hospitals Minnesota Hospital Systems Agree Not to Charge Some Uninsured Patients More than the Insured USA Today reports that Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch has obtained agreements from four hospital systems not to charge uninsured pat...