News and Record: Dr. Julie Ann Freischlag, the now-retired top executive of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, received a 45.6% increase in total compensation for fiscal 2024, raising her pay to $7.63 million, according to the nonprofit’s federal tax filing… Advocate Health, parent company of Atrium Health and Baptist, provided […]
Category: Hospital Systems
House GOP Compromises On Hospital Facility Fees
The NC House is considering a bill that would prevent hospitals from billing Medicaid for facility fees. This would apply when patients are seen in most hospital system facilities other than the hospital itself, ambulatory surgery centers or emergency rooms. For instance, health care consumers are often shocked to be […]
Cone Health A Defendant In Transgender Detransitioner Suit
I have reported here about this case previously. It concerns a person who received medical transgender treatments. She experienced long term problems and sued for malpractice. Now, the NC Court of Appeals has agreed to hear her case. You will see here that Cone Health is one of the defendants. […]
General Assembly Bills Target Hospital Systems
A couple of recent articles highlight some legislative efforts to bring the state’s corrupt hospital systems in line. The first targets the notorious “facility fees” that patients and insurers face when patients are seen in offices owned by hospital systems but not in the hospital itself. Many have had the […]
Focus On The Hospital Systems, All Of A Sudden
NC Political Tea has an article that discusses nonprofit hospital systems behaving like large for-profit corporations. This is a theme we have discussed at this blog occasionally. She links to an article at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal that suggests politicians from both parties are concerned. Indeed, they should be, […]
The Raleigh Republicans’ Assist To Corporate Employers of Physicians
The General Assembly passed a bill— HB 67– that does several things. The bill runs 48 pages. Senate candidate Don Brown recently discussed it on OAN. He focused on the part of the bill that opens the floodgates for many more foreign-trained physicians to be employed by hospital systems in […]
Hospital Systems Antagonize LGBTQ Groups
The woke hospital systems’ inclinations are to veer to the extreme left. However, they are now earning the aspersions of LGBTQ advocacy groups because they have limited the provision of “gender-affirming care” in response to Trump’s recent executive actions and newly enacted state law. Let there be no misunderstanding. These […]
The Scam Associated With “Not–For-Profit” Hospitals
Non-profit hospitals aren't holding up their end of the bargain. @RepJamesFrank asks the critical question of the Texas Hospital Association: "What is it that y'all are doing that for-profit hospitals aren't doing, other than not paying a lot of taxes?" pic.twitter.com/pnKfY0v02W — Brian Phillips (@RealBPhil) May 1, 2025
Cone Health’s Push Toward “Value-Based Care”
There was a splash of acquiescent, fawning media at the Greensboro News and Record and the Triad Business Journal regarding the fact that the takeover of Cone Health by Risant Health has been consummated. The big theme being pushed is the fact that Cone Health will be diving headlong into […]
NC Supreme Court Accepts Case Addressing Hospital System Monopolies
WRAL reports that the NC Supreme Court on Friday ordered a trial for a case that has enormous implications with regard to the monopolies granted to corporate hospital systems in the state of North Carolina. The main vehicle for their de facto monopoly status is the certificate of need law […]