I mourn somewhat the news of this buyout. These three pharmacies, under the same ownership, provided excellent customer service for many years. I fear this is not good news for the people of eastern Rockingham County who will have less real choices and competition. It corporatizes nearly the entire pharmacy […]
Category: Hospital Systems
Briner’s War With Atrium: Update
We had reported here five days ago that our state treasurer, Brad Briner, was taking Atrium to court over its shady maneuvers to enable its overcharging the State Health Plan. He lost his initial plea in court for a restraining order. In response to his defeat in court, he is […]
State Treasurer At War With Hospital System
While I have not liked much of what Brad Briner has brought to the state treasurer’s office, he is absolutely right on this one. One of our state’s many corrupt hospital systems– Atrium– devised a plan whereby it would waive co-pays and deductibles for folks covered by the State Health […]
Oral Argument Heard For Lawsuit Against Cone Health’s Transgender Treatments
Carolina Journal has the story. Cone Health’s attorney argued that the standard of care was being followed when the organization prescribed and/or administrated transgender treatments for a minor patient: Dr. Martha Perry and Moses Cone Hospital… disputed Mosley’s arguments. “After medical evaluation and assessment of Plaintiff, Dr. Martha Perry diagnosed […]
Hospital Behavior During The Covid-19 Pandemic
“The head of infectious disease medicine at my hospital privately told me that he was working with the state government to restrict the civil rights of unvaccinated people.” – James P. Miller, MD pic.twitter.com/j840mzr78J — Aaron Siri (@AaronSiriSG) September 28, 2026
Corrupt Hospital Systems Might Have To Pay More Sales Tax
Because of some creative accounting and bad law, North Carolina hospital systems have been able to evade paying sales tax on their purchases. A bill is in the process of being passed that would reverse that situation. The hospital systems have been able to use this tax exemption to further […]
Cone Health’s Parent Organization Cited by EEOC For Religious Discrimination
Kaiser Permanente is the California-based organization that created Risant Health. Recall that Cone Health was acquired by Risant Health over the last couple of years. Kaiser has run into difficulties with the EEOC. The issue was a failure to recognize religious exemptions to vaccine mandates. The Christian Post reports: (T)he […]
Cone Health Promotes Nurse Practitioners As Key To Future
The organization is launching its Institute for Advanced Practice that promises to provide nurse practitioners and physicians’ assistants with advanced training. Of course, this is a blatant admission that many of these practitioners are not remotely ready to deliver appropriate care when they graduate from their programs. After all, how […]
P. Davis Jones On Hospital System Profits
A congressman recently described some nonprofit hospitals as “hedge funds with hospital beds.” My first reaction was: that tracks. So I started digging. Nonprofit hospitals don’t have shareholders, but they generate billions in revenue, pay executives millions of dollars,… pic.twitter.com/NSRHWHfsgE — Davis Jones (@pdavisjones) May 30, 2026
Good Bill Regulating Hospital Systems In NC Senate
Now that so many physicians are controlled by hospital systems, the landscape for patients is precarious. We saw the potential for wrong-doing by hospital systems become blatant– for all to see- during Covid. An excellent bill is moving through the NC Senate. It would do several things: This is a […]