Talk:Universal Health Services/Archives/2017

BuzzFeed story
This BuzzFeed story has been picked up by a lot of other news media:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosalindadams/intake Locked On The Psych Ward Lock them in. Bill their insurer. Kick them out. How scores of employees and patients say America’s largest psychiatric chain turns patients into profits. Rosalind Adams BuzzFeed News Dec. 7, 2016

A yearlong BuzzFeed News investigation — based on interviews with 175 current and former UHS staff, including 18 executives who ran UHS hospitals; more than 120 additional interviews with patients, government investigators, and other experts; and a cache of internal documents — raises grave questions about the extent to which those profits were achieved at the expense of patients.

Current and former employees from at least 10 UHS hospitals in nine states said they were under pressure to fill beds by almost any method — which sometimes meant exaggerating people’s symptoms or twisting their words to make them seem suicidal — and to hold them until their insurance payments ran out.

A state-funded 2011 report on one Chicago hospital found “woefully inadequate” staffing levels, a “repeated and willful failure by UHS officials to ensure that their staff were properly trained,” and a pattern of admitting more patients than it had room for “in an effort to maximize financial profit.” Investigators also flagged broader concerns, citing “troubling reports suggesting a pattern of quality of care issues, harm to patients, or major healthcare fraud charges involving UHS-operating facilities in a dozen other states.”

UHS is under federal investigation into whether the company committed Medicare fraud....

--Nbauman (talk) 19:15, 11 December 2016 (UTC)


 * I edited the page and added a description of this investigation. A while later the IP address 50.204.247.218 removed my summary of that description from the article introduction.  That IP address is registered in King of Prussia, PA; the same city UHS is headquartered in.  I reverted the removal and will monitor the page for future edits.

Theoriginalandrewia (talk) 05:18, 4 January 2017 (UTC)