Sunday, December 21, 2014

How Nonprofit Hospitals Are Seizing Patients' Wages


This story was co-published with NPR.

NONPROFIT SUE


On the eastern edge of St. Joseph, Missouri, lies the small city's only hospital, a landmark of brick and glass. Music from a player piano greets visitors at the main entrance, and inside, the bright hallways seem endless. Long known as Heartland Regional Medical Center, the nonprofit hospital and its system of clinics recently rebranded. Now they're called Mosaic Life Care, because, their promotional materials say: "We offer much more than health care. We offer life care."
Two miles away, at the rear of a low-slung building is a key piece of Mosaic—Heartland's very own for-profit debt collection agency.
READ MORE:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/19/nonprofit-hospitals-sue_n_6356058.html

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