Category: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

North Carolina Treasurer’s Office Says Hospitals Reaping Billions from Medicare Despite Claiming Otherwise

A report prepared for the North Carolina State Treasurer’s Office revealed that many state hospitals and lobbyists haven’t lost billions of dollars on Medicare patients as they previously claimed, but in fact made large profits from 2015 to 2020. “What we’re seeing is the biggest transfer of wealth in my lifetime in North Carolina,” state…


More Than Two-Thirds of Hospital Operation Prices Not Compliant With Transparency Rules: Study

The majority of American hospitals are still not transparent on their pricing of hospital procedures, even though transparency policies were initiated in 2019, according to recent studies on hospital pricing for joint replacements and other procedures. A study by Cleveland Clinic Foundation found that only around a third—32 percent—of hospitals were totally transparent with their…


Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Suspends Vaccine Mandate Enforcement

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) suspended enforcement of its vaccine mandate for healthcare workers after two court orders earlier this week. A memo issued by the agency, posted by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Twitter Thursday, said that CMS “remains confident” it will prevail in court but is “suspending activities…


10 States Sue Biden Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

A coalition of 10 states led by Missouri’s attorney general on Wednesday sued President Joe Biden over his administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. A federal court has blocked, for now, the administration’s private employer vaccine mandate, but a stricter one for healthcare workers remains in place. The healthcare worker mandate, which covers over…


10 States Sue Biden Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Health Care Workers

A coalition of 10 states led by Missouri’s attorney general on Nov. 10 sued President Joe Biden over his administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care workers. A federal court has blocked, for now, the administration’s private employer vaccine mandate, although a stricter one focused on health care workers remains in place. The health care…


Recordings Reveal Lockstep COVID-19 Protocols, Patient Isolation by Hospitals

Attorneys, medical doctors, and family members of COVID-19 victims have described and offered recordings of what the Truth for Health Foundation calls “horrific hospital violations of human rights,” including denial of intravenous fluids to patients, denial of access to patients by families, attorneys, and others, and imposition of remdesivir on patients despite risks of kidney and…