Exposing Hospital Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
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🔎 Hospital Waste Fact of the Week: The Detective is back—and hospital prices are going missing.
In 2025, 43% of hospitals reviewed by Patient Rights Advocate posted fewer prices than they did the year before.
Funny how the prices disappear, but the bills always find you.
Texas nonprofit hospitals have “bill first, help later” down to a science: 44% say they bill patients before checking if they qualify for free or discounted care.
They know how to find their tax breaks. Your financial assistance? Keep looking.
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NEW in the Dallas Morning News: Vance Ginn says posting prices is only part of the job.
Texas should enforce the rules tied to nonprofit hospital tax breaks, demand accountability for charity care and community benefits, and make room for more competition.
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When every dollar counts, paying twice for nonprofit hospitals is a hard sell.
Former Rep. Joe Barton points to Texas, where 42% of nonprofit hospitals reviewed got tax breaks worth more than their measurable community investments. Congress must demand more.
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In Texas, the term “non-profit hospital” is an absolute oxymoron.
The way they are operating is essentially anything BUT not-for-profit. 💰
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The FTC just put 24 major healthcare companies on notice: incomplete or misleading hospital prices can violate federal consumer protection law, even if they technically comply with CMS rules.
Hospitals should not be able to hide behind fine print or partial prices. Patients deserve the full cost upfront.
Read more: hospitalfacts.org/hospitals-…
Ten hospital systems own 695 hospitals and account for 25% of all hospital profits. HCA alone earns more than the other nine combined.
Hospital consolidation is associated with higher prices—not better care. Policymakers must stop rewarding it.
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🧾 The Auditor ran the numbers on hospitals buying up doctors' offices.
The finding: once a hospital takes over a physician practice, prices for physicians' services rise 14% on average. Same doctor, same visit, bigger bill.
Source 👉 bipartisanpolicy.org/issue-b…
Introducing Hospital Waste Fact of the Week, where we chase down the line items hospitals hope you'll skip.
Each week, one of our investigators presents a fact:
🧾 The Auditor tracks where the money goes.
🔍 The Detective shows how patients are harmed.
First fact drops today.
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More Hospitals Are Being Bought by Private Equity. Here’s How It’s Changing Healthcare.

There’s a greater than one-in-10 chance your hospital is owned by someone who’s trying to double their money in seven years. If you live in Kentucky, your chances are one in six. In New Mexico, more than one in three.
Article link below.
TRENDING: Hospitals acquired by PE firms increase death rates, cause higher risks for patients, and decrease the overall quality of care:
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More Hospitals Are Being Bought By Private Equity; Here's How It's Changing Healthcare... zerohedge.com/medical/more-h…
“One mission. One system. One name.”
A hospital system big enough to control 7 in 10 admissions in its market should be able to figure out who qualifies for its own financial assistance before taking them to court.
Stormont Vail filed more than 2,100 collection cases in one Kansas county last year — including against patients later found eligible for help under its own policy.
The latest After the Merger diagnosis is in: Stormont Vail.
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Hospital prices have jumped more than 250% since 2000, and former Kansas Rep. Todd Tiahrt says it’s time to put hospitals under the same scrutiny other parts of healthcare have faced for years.
His focus: prices, transparency and nonprofit accountability.
Read more in DC Journal.
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We aren’t the only ones worried about hospital mergers.
The FTC is warning that financial distress doesn’t give hospitals a free pass to merge at the expense of patients.
Good. Regulators should keep the pressure on and stop deals that mean higher costs and less competition.
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The doctor is back in. 🏥💊🧑⚕️
Our third diagnosis takes us to Houston, where HCA bought Cypress Fairbanks, promised greater access, and then 20 months later turned a 181-bed hospital into a 27-bed emergency room.
Diagnosis: consolidation. Prognosis: fewer services, farther to travel.
Regulators should require post-merger checkups, not just pre-deal promises.
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