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

Summary

The Lown Institute’s 2024 Shkreli Awards highlighted 10 instances of egregious healthcare profiteering.

Winners included UnitedHealth for pressuring doctors to inflate medical coding and Steward Health Care for prioritizing profits over patient care, leading to bankruptcy and reduced healthcare access.

Other offenders included Zynex Medical’s fraudulent billing for supplies, Memorial Medical Center’s alleged upfront payment demands for cancer treatment, and Medicare’s mass billing for urinary catheters.

The awards aim to expose systemic dysfunction and push for reform in the profit-driven U.S. healthcare industry.

  • chingadera
    3•2 months ago

    Damn it’s really been 30?

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 months ago

      Yep, the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup Final was in 1993 when the Montreal Canadiens beat the LA Kings

      • chingadera
        2•2 months ago

        Damn. I was born close to that year. I even knew that date and was like “pfffft that’s not 30 years ago”