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The Daily Caller first reported about our letter to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, urging him to probe alleged lavish spending by taxpayer-subsidized nonprofit hospitals.
SOS Founder and Executive Director Trent England told Pritzker in the letter that major nonprofit hospitals “receive enormous public benefits, including tax exemptions and government funding, with the understanding that they will prioritize patient care, including charity care,” adding that such “public trust deserves oversight, particularly where taxpayer dollars are involved.”
“Our report documents a disturbing pattern at Rush University Medical Center,” according to the letter. “In 2017, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General found that Medicare overpaid Rush by $10.2 million ‘because the Hospital did not have adequate controls to prevent the incorrect billing of Medicare claims.’”
Read the full article at The Daily Caller.