They have excellent doctors but the business end sucks canal water. I have had so many patients who have gone to CCF and gotten mired in screwed up billing, fraudulent charges(Held in hospital, sent to a room and put in bed, and then charged for outpatient “observer” status is the favorite. Clue: insurance does not pay exorbitant charges for “observation.” ) Costs people thousands of dollars out of pocket that should be billed honestly and paid by insurance.
I know of one personally who had to be prepared to physically fight her way to get discharged after being put on “observer” status for a migraine. The doctors threatened her that they would write it as AMA discharge, even though she had
never been admitted to inpatient status. They charged her over 10,000 dollars, having run some tests but provided no treatment. Fortunately, she was Irish and not about to be taken advantage of by a bunch of hotshots. She did have a nice meal though.
Fine, if you need a heart transplant, by all means go there. But expect to pay possibly for the rest of your life. Such is the industrial model of “healthcare” since Obama care became law, and CCF was held up by the Kenyan as a model of what he thought it should be like.
Incidental bit of history. Cleveland Clinic was founded 101 years ago, but in a part of town that became low income. They never had an ER until the 1980s, iirc, Didn’t want to have to treat their neighbors who didn’t have any money. Let them go to County, , if they lived long enough to survive the EMS truck ride.
I agree.