New England Sinai Hospital was deemed essential by the Department of Public Health, but the hospital submitted a plan of maintained service to allow the closure.
Hospitals are adding billions of dollars in facility fees to medical bills for routine care in outpatient centers they own. Once an annoyance, the fees are now pervasive.
Expect to see UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty on Capitol Hill this spring, as lawmakers demand answers about a cyberattack Change Healthcare that paralyzed the industry.
A power outage that forced hundreds of patients to be evacuated at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital last summer was the result of lapses in maintaining the facility, a "deficient practice" that could put patients at risk of not getting needed care.