How Nonprofit Hospitals Put Profits Over Patients

<p>Nonprofit hospitals — which make up around half of hospitals in the United States — were founded to help the poor.</p><p>But a Times investigation has revealed that many have deviated from those charitable roots, behaving like for-profit companies, sometimes to the detriment of the health of patients.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/jessica-silver-greenberg?smid=pc-thedaily">Jessica Silver-Greenberg</a>, an investigative business reporter for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/business/nonprofit-hospitals-poor-patients.html"> trained staff members to wring money out of patients</a>, even those eligible for free care.</li><li>Dozens of doctors have said that this New York nonprofit hospital pressured them to give<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/22/health/nyu-langone-emergency-room-vip.html"> preferential treatment to donors, trustees and their families</a>.</li><li>Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used a poor neighborhood<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/24/health/bon-secours-mercy-health-profit-poor-neighborhood.html"> to tap into a lucrative federal drug program</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>