“Locked In” with Algenon Cash interviewing NC State Treasurer Dale Folwell on hospitals overcharging
Algenon Cash's YouTube program Locked In, interviews Dale Folwell, the treasurer of the state of North Carolina. Folwell is continuing to call out the state's charity hospitals that are not fulfilling their non-profit obligation to the communities they serve.
Dale Folwell, North Carolina Treasurer, takes on “the cartel”
North Carolina's state treasurer Dale Folwell is onto it. He sees that the state's non-profit hospitals are definitely not fulfilling their charity care obligations. So much so, he's dubbed the system a "cartel." “The cartel controls the supply and controls the...
Open letter to Representative Jayapal: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Policy is “Medicare for All”
Vision of a New Way (VNW) would welcome any opportunity to review “overhaul” of our country’s health care system. VNW has been an advocate for improved access to care, improved affordability, improved health in general and longer life expectations for more than twenty...
Some Montana hospitals coming up far short in charity care, Kaiser Health News
Kaiser Health News reports Montana non-profit hospitals have business models more like for-profit hospitals as they come up short, consistently, for charity patient care. Overall, Montana’s nearly 50 nonprofit hospitals directed, on average, roughly 8% of their total...
Addressing the failure of NC hospital organizations to provide discounted or free care to uninsured and underinsured obligors
Dear State Treasurer Folwell, State Auditor Wood, Deputy of Legal Affairs Estevez and Special Deputy Attorney General Sturgis: The North Carolina Health Plan (NCHP) can take action to correct the failing of the state’s hospital organizations providing discounted or...
Fair Fight pays off the bully, but he’s not going away…yet
Vision of a New Way (VNW) applauds, Stacey Abram’s on MSNBC talking about paying of medical debt. Fair Fight Action paying off $212 million in medical debt. VNW also wishes Stacey Abrams all the best in her campaign for the Georgia governorship. Good Intentions, But…...
NC Treasurer calls out hospitals, but should go further
Recent reporting by the Associated Press and WRAL that most North Carolina hospitals are, “falling short in treating the poor for free or reduced rates to validate their tax-exempt status” is deeply concerning. We appreciate North Carolina Treasurer Dale Folwell...
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s Financial Assistance Policy, Procedures and Practices Fail to Advance Providing the Charitable Patient Care
It has recently come to the attention of The Coalition for Affordable Hospitals (Coalition) that NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital’s (NYP) “Financial Assistance Policy” (FAP) fails to include an “indigency policy” as promulgated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...