Facing Accusations in CA, Hospital Company Looks to TX
A California hospital company facing allegations it inflated disease diagnoses to bill Medicare for more expensive conditions — including a form of Third World malnutrition rarely found in the U.S. — is edging into Texas.
Despite more than a year of bad press and an apparent FBI inquiry, Prime Healthcare Services, which owns and operates more than a dozen hospitals, most of them in California, acquired ownership of South Texas’ 112-bed Harlingen Medical Center in December, then bought Pampa Regional Medical Center, a 115-bed hospital in the Panhandle, this month. Prime spokesman Edward Barrera said in a statement that the allegations ...
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gypsy314 ne
Man that is all Texas needs a bunch of liberal crooks.
Anyone but Obama and democrats! And rhino Joe Straus
Stephen J Wright via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Barrera said a big motivator for the company’s move into the Texas market — and into hospitals in Harlingen and Pampa — is the prospect of operating in a 'right to work state.'
'Prime Healthcare has decided that the current environment in California is not business-friendly,'he said."
Translation: "We'd like to continue screwing people over and making a ton of money doing it. Thus, we're moving to Texas".
David Spratt
The SEIU/HCW calling medicare fraudsters " Crooks." That is too funny. What happens in California needs to stay in California , Including the people that live there. Many of them are moving here with their wacky progressive ideas.
Adele Roberson
They are coming to Texas because they will be safe here. Free from investigations free from criminal charges..California, after years of corruption is tryingto clean up the State. The criminals are moving to Texas.
Texas is crooked from the top down... great place for criminals.
We have been ignoring for twenty years what was taking insidious place in our State . And we will have to face it eventually. In Texas... one out of ten people bother to vote. We get exactly what we deserve,. Our children will live in a society that we provided for them. When we watched the religous
fanatics screaming for the last quarter of a century we thought they were funny. We spent more time deciding what car we were going to buy this year than we did in knowing who was taking over our livelyhood, our schools and our life. Wisconsin is now the tipping point. It speaks to Texas.. next on the list. Conservatives , greedy. ignorant and corrupt have bought the State of Texas and will continue destroying it.
We get exactly what we deserve... we will discover that Ignorance is not Bliss. But it will be too late. If it not already.