Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches ( www.statnews.com )
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Medicaid is paying millions for salty, fat-laden ‘medically tailored’ cheeseburgers and sandwiches ( www.statnews.com )
They’re marketed as healthy, “dietitian-approved” meals and delivered directly to the homes of people seriously ill from cancer, diabetes, or heart disease: a Jimmy Dean frozen sausage breakfast sandwich, biscuits and gravy, a cheeseburger....
Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names ( www.statnews.com )
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Troubled for-profit chains are stealthily operating dozens of psychiatric hospitals under nonprofits’ names ( www.statnews.com )
Large nonprofit health systems like Geisinger, Ascension, and Henry Ford are forming joint ventures with investor-owned psychiatric hospital operators such as Acadia and Universal Health Services. While these hospitals often carry the names of the nonprofits, for-profit companies with questionable track records manage...