#USA #healthcare

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced

Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/07/annual-awards-healthcare-profiteering

#Hospital Rating Index from #LownInstitute

In #Delaware, St Francis was #1 in #Equity and Value

https://lownhospitalsindex.org/rankings/?sortBy=Equity&type=HospTyp_ACH&state=DE

Here is a comparison between #Bayhealth/Kent, #Christiana and #Beebe

(You can change the parameters to include other institutions)

https://lownhospitalsindex.org/rankings/compare/?hospitals=080004,080001,080007

You'll enjoy reading this year's #Shkreli Awards (yes, that Shkreli) from the #LownInstitute, to recognize "the worst in healthcare profiteering and dysfunction."
https://lowninstitute.org/projects/2022-shkreli-awards/

No. 4: The CEO of Novus Hospice (Frisco, Texas) directed staffers "to dose patients with more than the maximum allowed amount of painkillers to hasten patient death, with the goal of reducing the average patient stay to avoid caps on government reimbursement."