UnitedHealth Group Inc. will offer customers about $1.5 billion of discounts and other help, including credits toward premiums and suspension of out-of-pocket charges for some doctor visits, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Doctors, nurses and other health care workers called on to care for coronavirus patients have had their wages cut, with some even going without paid time off amid the pandemic. Hospital executives have continued earning big, however, pocketing million-dollar salaries.
California hospitals are reporting billions of dollars in losses amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. The California Hospital Association says hospitals have suffered as much as $14 billion in losses by postponing elective surgeries and other procedures to make room for the anticipated flood of coronavirus patients. The association asked state lawmakers yesterday to approve a $1 billion in financial aid.
The state's largest health care system has continued its streak of solid financial performance but also runs headlong into the financial impact of coronavirus response measures handed down from the state government.
If all goes according to plan, Easton Hospital will be sold by the end of June, bringing the long-struggling Wilson facility — and most of its employees — under the umbrella of the better-positioned St. Luke’s University Health Network. But if things don’t go as planned?
A nationwide network of hospitals that includes the GW Hospital is suing Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar for allegedly providing inadequate Medicare funding. In a 37-page complaint filed by 48 hospitals in the D.C. Superior Court Monday, District Hospital Partners – which operates the GW Hospital – alleges the department gave the hospitals insufficient Medicare payments because of a miscalculation of the number of days hospitals treated patients from fiscal years 2004 to 2014.