Over 125,000 people in Miami-Dade County have received letters stating that some, or all, of their medical debt was paid off. No, it’s not a scam. Billionaires and Miami Beach residents Daniel and Jane Och are footing the tab — roughly $264 million — for 125,611 residents in Miami-Dade who have outstanding medical bills.
After reported losses of $62 million and hundreds of staff cuts, Independence Health System’s two new hospital presidents confirmed Monday that all five of the system’s hospitals — Westmoreland, Frick, Latrobe, Butler Memorial and Clarion — are part of the system’s future.
Kaiser Permanente plans to open San Marcos Medical Center, its new hospital in North County, in early August. While surely a boon for Kaiser members living in the northern reaches of the region, some might expect this grand opening to cause severe budgetary indigestion at nearby Palomar Health.
Citing Cheshire Medical Center’s financial problems, the Dartmouth Health system has taken an administrative action related to the Keene hospital’s role in a system-level financial arrangement.
Vermont’s 14 hospitals have submitted their proposed budgets for next year. And Mike Del Trecco, the president and CEO of the Vermont Association of Hospitals and Health Systems, says there has never been a wider gap between what the state estimates the hospitals should be asking for, and what they say they need to survive in a post-pandemic landscape.