A major nonprofit hospital network, urged on by one of America’s most prestigious management consulting firms, hounded indigent patients for money.Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas, that explains why many low-income people, especially people of color, are reluctant to seek medical care.
A dental office worker making minimum wage sought care for a headache and nausea at an Orange County, Calif., Providence facility. The hospital sent a debt collection agency after him for $4,394.45. Gregory Hoffman, Providence’s chief financial officer, told the Times the paper’s findings were “very concerning.” Providence has stopped referring Medicaid patients to debt collectors and asked its collection agencies to stop garnishing wages or referring people to credit agencies.in “Health Affairs” that “found some hospitals were more likely than others to take patients to court and low-income and Black patients were disproportionately sued.
Patients better sign off on it first!
Now make healthcare affordable.
So much is lost in translation and duplicated in our healthcare costing patients health and endangering them in multiple ways.
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