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| DATE | 2022-12-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] Drugs and More drugs and Kickbacks and Scams
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wsj.com Many Hospitals Get Big Drug Discounts. That Doesn’t Mean
Markdowns for Patients. Anna Wilde Mathews, Paul Overberg, Joseph Walker
and Tom McGinty 15–19 minutes Dec. 20, 2022 11:33 am ET A decades-old
federal program that offered big drug discounts to a small number of
hospitals to help low-income patients now benefits some of the most
successful nonprofit health systems in the U.S. Under the program,
hospitals buy drugs at reduced prices and sell them to patients and
their insurers for much more, often at facilities in affluent
communities. One participant is the Cleveland Clinic’s flagship
hospital, which reported $1.35 billion in net income last year. The
hospital doesn’t admit enough Medicaid and low-income Medicare patients
to qualify for low-cost drugs under the program’s original requirements.
But a quirk in federal law allowed the hospital to qualify as a “rural
referral center,” despite its location near the center of Cleveland.
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