The union rats set up a big truck outside a non-union hospital up here in Boston a few years back with the side of the truck painted like a billboard saying something like “Hospital X had to return X millions of dollars to Medicare last year...”
Which is a completely inflammatory thing, because every large hospital “returns” millions of dollars to insurance providers (including Medicare) because things are charged that in retrospect, should have been done differently.
And I believe the largest portion of these are charges that the hospitals themselves have discovered may have been accidentally billed a certain way. (a CT of the brain without contrast is billed as one with contrast by accident, etc)
The old saying many parents used to use with kids getting a whipping: “Don’t make me come after you...” is a good analogy for the payers, specifically Medicare. If you go to them (self-police) with an error, it is treated as such.
If they see problems and come to you, they are going to bring an audit with them if the problems are big enough or numerous enough.
By the way, that famous hospital eventually caved and went to the union rats after the head of the SEIU at the time (Andy Stern) said “We are going to destroy their relationships with their patients”.
Nice. Scum.
“Activists protested a New York City hospital over the weekend for its decision to accept a monetary donation from political mega-donor David Koch.
Groups including the New York State Nurses’ Association, the NAACP New York State Conference and SEIU Local 1199 held banners and chanted songs in protest of New York-Presbyterian Hospital’s plans to add an ambulatory care center, to be called the David H. Koch Center.”