May 28, 2022 Buffalo River Every Friday our union staff gets together on a group conference call to compare notes, count the numbers, and collaborate on problems in our various offices and units across Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. Our most recent call was missing Toney Orr, our field director, so I was presiding. …
Category: Louisiana
Hospital Pricing Transparency, Not!
New Orleans The weather forecast included both thundershowers and a tornado warning, but when asked if we should go ahead with the often scheduled and postponed press conference to release our study on hospital pricing transparency, the decision was easy: go! So, there we were in front of Ochsner-Baptist Hospital, a major unit …
Hospitals’ Lack of Transparency Keeps Patients in the Dark
New Orleans The American Hospital Association and its members, supposedly dedicated to their patients and the maxim of “doing no harm”, sued the federal government for years to prevent the imposition of a rule that would require them to finally reveal their prices. After they repeatedly lost in court, Centers for Medicare and …