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...inflated prices, dispensing a tiny fraction of their revenues in charity care, engaging in abusive collection tactics and, in some cases, using accounting gimmicks to mask their wealth and enrich executives. "It offends my sense of justice that they've gotten away with this," Scruggs says in his gentle Mississippi drawl...
...challenges to the nonprofit-hospital sector. The IRS is probing dozens of those institutions over questions of excessive CEO pay, insider transactions, sweetheart loans and conflicts of interest on hospital boards. Congress recently held hearings on hospital billing and abusive collection tactics. The attorneys general in Illinois and Mississippi have been investigating similar issues. In Mississippi, the U.S. Attorney recently sued Baptist Health Systems, accusing it of paying kickbacks to doctors and filing fraudulent cost reports. (Baptist denies the charges.) Bills are also pending in California and Illinois that would clamp down on some collection tactics and force hospitals...
...policy last year, giving free care to patients earning up to 200% of the federal poverty guidelines. Provena has broadened its charity-care eligibility, and the AHA has been urging its 4,700 member hospitals to sign new charity and billing guidelines. Scruggs has already notched one victory. In Mississippi, the nation's largest rural hospital system settled with him last month, agreeing to provide an estimated $270 million in debt relief and discounts for patients, even though it wasn't sued. Scruggs calls the deal with North Mississippi Health Services a model, and says he would drop his challenges...
...Georgians tried to enlist government authorities to their cause but failed. Then Bagnato called an old medical-school friend from Mississippi, David Merideth. Also a lawyer, Merideth suggested talking to Scruggs and asked Bagnato to write up his findings, at that point encompassing dozens of hospitals, in a letter. "I knew we were onto something really good when I gave Dickie the letter and he kept studying it," Merideth recalled. Scruggs was outraged by the accumulation of hospital wealth and seemingly abusive collection efforts. "He wouldn't give it back to me for a while," says Merideth. "When he finally...
...earlier era, students were a vital part of the movement that expanded voting rights. In 1963, a young Joseph I. Lieberman joined 100 college students from Yale and Stanford to register black voters in Mississippi. Writing in the Yale Daily News about his reasons for skipping class to travel south, he said, “I am going...because there is much work to be done there and few men are doing it….It all becomes a personal matter to me. I am challenged personally...