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| Hospital Victims Hospital Victims is a website to help those who have been overcharged by hospitals. This website provides useful information such as a hospitals Cost-to-Charge ratio and also their mark-up percentage. There is also a help line available for those who would like help protecting themselves from outrageously high healthcare costs. Consejo de Latinos Unidos Consejo de Latinos Unidos has drawn national attention to the issue of price gouging the uninsured. In 2003, Consejo was credited by The Wall Street Journal with "a big win" after forcing the nation's second largest hospital chain, Tenet Healthcare, to change its aggressive billing practices against the uninsured by charging the uninsured the same prices insurance companies pay for the exact same care. Stopgpokickbacks.org Stop GPO Kickbacks is a coalition of patients, physicians, healthcare workers, device manufacturers, distributors, and concerned citizens committed to returning true competition to the marketplace and ensuring an efficient effective healthcare system through repeal of the GPO safe harbor.
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References to ads regarding hospital price gouging. |
The amount of cash, stocks, bonds, etc. being held by a hospital. |
Salaries of hospital executives. |
The amount of money a hospital spends on charity. |
Action by Congress on not-for-profits. |
Find out what the hospital is charging compared to what it actually costs the hospital. |
Teasers for upcoming information or last minute notes
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Hospitals and Medicaid. |
Are hospitals practicing what they preach? |
Stories about hospitals under attack. |
The amounts hospitals are actually billing patients for various procedures. |
How much a hospital has made. |