The CFPB has penalized medical debt collectors, issued stern warnings to healthcare providers and lenders that target patients, and published reams of reports on how the health care system is undermining the financial security of Americans.
Independence Health System marked its first year as a hospital network with a combined loss of $71.4 million from operations, a 14% reduction from the $82.9 million operational loss when the two hospital networks combined into a single entity in 2022.
Gov. Maura Healey is reigniting calls for Steward Health Care to leave Massachusetts after the Dallas-based company did not comply with the state's request to release their audited financial documents.
Steward Health Care's landlord, Medical Properties Trust has started a process to sell or find new tenants for facilities including those operated by the financially troubled for-profit hospital chain.
Four years after catastrophic flooding closed Norwood Hospital, contractors have stopped work on the reconstruction of the facility operated by troubled Steward Health Care, saying they haven't been paid.
The Massachusetts congressional delegation is asking the private equity founders of Steward Health Care to account for how much money they took out of the hospital chain.