How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients

Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.


But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes to the detriment of the health of patients.


Guest: Jessica Silver-Greenberg (https://www.nytimes.com/by/jessica-si...) , an investigative business reporter for The New York Times.


Background reading: 

• With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff members to wring money out of patients (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/bu...) , even those eligible for free care.
• Dozens of doctors have said that this New York nonprofit hospital pressured them to give preferential treatment to donors, trustees and their families (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/he...) .
• Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used a poor neighborhood to tap into a lucrative federal drug program (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/he...) .

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