Referring to this post, I mentioned that Cancer Treatment Centers of America pisses me off. Apparently I’m not the only one criticizing them and other cancer centers for promoting false hope. From Modern Healthcare:
A Modern Healthcare investigation last year found that three of the company’s facilities were among the nation’s leaders in receiving Medicare supplemental “outlier” payments, which are intended to compensate hospitals for unusually expensive episodes of care. The payments are derived in part from hospitals’ retail prices, which typically exceed the actual cost of care.
The company has also been criticized for broadcasting commercials that promote false hope and cherry-picking patients to skew its outcomes. Van Grinsven acknowledged in a Modern Healthcare Q&A that the company’s patient population “may not mirror the general population of cancer patients for various reasons.”
The article was about the resignation of Cancer Treatment Centers of America CEO. You can read the rest of it here.