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‘Unlimited dollars’: how an Indiana hospital chain took over a region and jacked up prices (www.theguardian.com)

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In the nation’s most affordable metro area, getting hurt or sick is expensive

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Revenue pressure was even brought down to the level of nurses – some of whom say they have been pushed to charge for the smallest of items from Kleenexes to batteries. One 2022 email, obtained by the Guardian, shows a supervisor at Parkview DeKalb telling nurses that she had reviewed their charts for the week and found they had “missed” $50,000 in charges as a team. The following year, managers told staff to be more stringent about how many linen towels they handed out to patients – an initiative they termed “linen stewardship”.

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This fiscal year it found roughly $140m to pour into capital projects across greater Fort Wayne – investments that, a Moody’s report from July noted, will help further its goal of regional expansion.

Also mentioned in the article....some hospitals have their own private police forces.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Nickel and diming sick people has got to be the most ghoulish practice people defend as good business acumen.