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The Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association reports a $220 million Healthy Safety Net deficit for fiscal year 2025, following $380 million deficits in FY 2023 and 2024, totaling $600 million. It raises the question how exactly are hospitals burning through so much cash? Taxpayers deserve to know.
“I’m going to the same office. I’m seeing the same doctor. I’m having the same follow-up appointment I always have — and then, all of a sudden, they changed the billing. I felt like what they did was really dirty.”
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Instead of the $75 fee Rebecca Smith, a breast cancer survivor, had been paying for an office visit and blood draw since she started treatments in 2017, Novant hit her with a bill for about $400 for the visit.
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While it was losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year, Steward paid at least $250 million to its chief executive officer, Dr. Ralph de la Torre, and to his other companies during the four years he was the hospital chain’s majority owner.
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One patient was found unresponsive in a hospital hallway; another collapsed and died while waiting in a registration line. Others died after overworked hospital staff did not monitor their conditions. Four died after developing a mold infection from an outbreak that wasn’t properly contained. All were patients at Steward hospitals.
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In Phoenix, where temperatures topped 100 degrees, the air conditioning failed at a Steward hospital, forcing patients to be transferred elsewhere, according to a court filing. Also, the kitchen was closed because of health-code violations. The state last week ordered the hospital to cease operations.
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