Alvarado Hospital apparently wanted a higher rate than Tri-City Hospital to care for prison inmates so the contract was lost under the decision making of the new owners, Prime Healthcare. It was noted in the article below that Prime plans on spending around $25 million to upgrade the hospital with...
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The first task of of business is to upgrade the ER at Alvarado Hospital. In Orange County where I live in California, you can roll bowling balls through the once busy parking lots as the company does not normally sign contracts with insurers and charges their customary rates. Just as the...
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Prime Healthcare had been seeing out of network Kaiser Permanente patients and does not have contracted rates with Kaiser or any other insurance carriers and bills their normal and customary fees. Recently in the news Prime Healthcare had also been bidding on IHHI hospitals here in Orange...
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The case that Airborne falsely claimed its products could cure or prevent colds, was settled earlier this year for $23.5 million and now 6.5 million more dollars have been added to the settlement. As the article states, the FDA needs to grant approval for such products, but the product has been...