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Dollar Politics
Health care lobbyists are trying to get their clients' interest represented, which involves millions of dollars going into Capitol Hill. This series examines the connection between money and politics and what it means for health care in the United States. Also, in this series the description that leads politicians and lobbyists to distort the lines between political support and utter corruption is explained.
Tags: corruption; health care; industry; money; Senate; debate; legal; illegal; campaign; committee; meeting
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In Their Dust
The Baltimore Sun discovered that unbeknownst to state regulators and legislators, non-profit hospitals were suing tens of thousands of patients in local courts over unpaid bills even though those bills were covered through the rate-setting system. Some of the hospitals that filed the most lawsuits were also collecting consistent surpluses on unpaid and charity care through the rate-setting formula, something that the rate-setting commission could not explain. Patients were often railroaded through the legal system. And hospitals violated state laws or contracts with insurance companies by suing patients for amounts they were not permitted to collect.
Tags: hospitals; patient billing fraud; non-profit corruption; health care; debt collection; ground rent; hospital rates; suing patients
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Hospital Corruption: "Salaries First, Patients Last"; "Hospital Secrets"
The series exposed Schneider Regional Medical Center's top executives' self-dealing and lavish pay, perks and the tragic result: The public hospital's cancer center was left so cash-strapped it could not pay for medicine and radiation equipment. The Daily News also revealed that more than $2.4 million in charity donations to the hospital's cancer center is missing, and the hospital cannot produce documentation to explain the numerous large withdrawals from bank accounts and entities that were specifically created to receive those donations. The investigation also found that two top hospital executives had criminal records, which were not disclosed when they were hired.
Tags: health care; hospital administration; corruption; embezzlement; chemotherapy and radiation; Virgin Islands
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California's Criminal Nurses
Dozens of registered nurses and other licensed health care professionals convicted of serious crimes - including sex offenses and attempted murder - remained fully licensed to practice for years in California before regulators acted against them. Some registered nurses racked up five, 10, even 14 convictions before the state moved to discipline them.
Tags: nurses; health care; criminal records; licensed nurses; hospitals; corruption
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The Crisis of Foster Care
"A yearlong investigation by Time has found the crisis mounting in at least 20 states as lawyers file class actions asking judges to take control of entire agencies and Governors to appoint task forces to review child-welfare programs." In this special investigation, Time uncovers a system of corruption, neglect, and personal politics intervening in the well-being of 560,000 children in the nation's foster care system.
Tags: Foster care; adoption; child abuse; Department of Health and Human Services
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Insider loans at non-profit medical providers
WBUR-FM (Boston, Mass.) discloses a large pattern of insider loans by hospitals and doctors groups to their senior executives at low interest rates. The investigation demonstrates that these well-paid professionals get extra perks even as consumers are forced to pay more and more.
Tags: Health care Corruption
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The Challenge of a Miracle
Pittsburgh Press issues reprint of series on trauma and the problems of emergency medical care in southwestern Pennsylvania, Feb. 10 - 14, 1985.
Tags: Health Care; Organ Transplant System; Crime; Corruption