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 […]
Category: Hospital Systems
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 […]
Juxtapose Hospital Executive Salaries Vs. Physician Circumstances
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 […]
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, […]