It's no secret that Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway is extremely effective when it comes to protecting Missouri taxpayers. It's also no secret that Galloway's office helped uncover a major rural hospital billing scam in Missouri.
In May of this year, Galloway's work uncovering a billing scam at Unionville, Missouri's Putnam County Memorial Hospital earned her national media attention from CBS News. The scam involved the hospital acting as a shell company for, to put it mildly, extremely shady billing practices:
There is a rural hospital crisis in America, in that many rural areas in this country lack a nearby hospital, and the rural hospitals that do exist are often in financial trouble. However, it is extremely unethical for any hospital, regardless of its size or the area it serves, to engage in unethical billing practices.
Missourians deserve a state auditor who is unapolgetically committed to protecting Missouri taxpayers and protecting Missourians from financial harm. That's why I encourage Missouri voters to vote for Nicole Galloway in this year's election for state auditor.
In May of this year, Galloway's work uncovering a billing scam at Unionville, Missouri's Putnam County Memorial Hospital earned her national media attention from CBS News. The scam involved the hospital acting as a shell company for, to put it mildly, extremely shady billing practices:
(Galloway's) team discovered a management company called Hospital Partners had swooped in weeks before Putnam (County Memorial Hospital) was about to close, promising to turn it around. They made deals with labs around the country to funnel billing for blood tests and drug screens through Putnam, which collects higher reimbursement rates as a rural hospital. Putnam kept about 15 percent; most of the money was wired back to the labs and the management company.
"Essentially the hospital appeared to act as a shell company for these questionable lab billings," Galloway explained. "In a six-month period, the hospital funneled through about $92 million in revenues. To put that in perspective, the previous year their total revenues were $7.5 million."
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"Several months after the questionable lab billings had started, there was no operating lab in the hospital," she said.(added context mine)
There is a rural hospital crisis in America, in that many rural areas in this country lack a nearby hospital, and the rural hospitals that do exist are often in financial trouble. However, it is extremely unethical for any hospital, regardless of its size or the area it serves, to engage in unethical billing practices.
Missourians deserve a state auditor who is unapolgetically committed to protecting Missouri taxpayers and protecting Missourians from financial harm. That's why I encourage Missouri voters to vote for Nicole Galloway in this year's election for state auditor.
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