Word: provena
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...fact, many hospitals are revising their charity policies. In California, Sutter Health--a 27-hospital chain accused of spending less than 2% of its revenues on charity care--enhanced its 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...
...Laverne Dumas, one of the plaintiffs in a suit against Provena Mercy Center in Aurora, Ill., went into the hospital for a severe sinus infection and was sent a $12,338 bill that included $650 a day for the room and $6 for each ibuprofen pill. Uninsured and living mainly on her husband Joe's $800-a-month pension at the time, she says she tried to negotiate a payment plan, but the hospital refused. Provena won a judgment, and today the couple pays $100 in monthly installments, with scant hope of paying off their $27,000 in hospital bills...
...Provena overly harsh? Patrick Coffey, a lawyer for Provena, says the Dumas signed forms promising to pay their bills and "agreed that the charges were fair. We reject the notion of any legal basis or merit to their claims." But the state of Illinois revoked a tax exemption for a Provena hospital based on findings that the hospital wasn't providing enough charity care; Provena is appealing...
Soon after he got the two-month extension of his group's insurance, Sosenko thought he might have found a more permanent solution, courtesy of the local Provena Saint Joseph Hospital. Surgeons like to have a pulmonologist standing by when they perform a complicated procedure like open heart surgery. So the hospital offered to hire Sosenko and his colleagues as staff physicians and cover them under its liability insurance. However, Provena's insurance company wouldn't cover the doctors if they continued to see patients outside the hospital, even part time. "Maybe it was silly to take the two-month...
That has been painfully clear to Sosenko in recent weeks. After the collapse of their talks with Provena Hospital, the doctors of MPC, who had pledged to stick it out together, suddenly fractured. The three who haven't been named in either of the lawsuits pending against the practice--Drs. Walsh, Visvanatha Giri and Phillip Leung--created a separate partnership and secured malpractice insurance. Sosenko is planning to take the next couple of weeks off now that his policy has run out and then try to find a new medical group to join. Even so, he says, there...
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