Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found.
Category: Hospitals
Bellevue Hospital Rushes Patients Into Weight-Loss Surgery
New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.
How a Lucrative Surgery Took Off Online and Disfigured Patients
More surgeons are opting for a complicated hernia repair that they learned from videos on social media showing shoddy techniques.
How NYU’s Emergency Room Favors the Rich
Dozens of doctors said the nonprofit hospital pressured them to give preferential treatment to donors, trustees and their families.