[news] FTC demanding information from Ballad Health

Ballad health is a healthcare monopoly in upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia formed when the states of Tennessee and Virginia authorized a Certificate of Public Advantage (COPA). This monopoly is run by Alan Levine who has a history in Florida and Louisiana. The FTC was against the COPA, but it was done anyway. Now the FTC is finally demanding answers. Since the COPA the healthcare in this area certainly hasn’t had any public advantage. Ballad has sued thousands of patients with little incomes and refused payment plans. Nurses have left due to working conditions, physicians have resigned, and services have been sent from a centrally locates hospital to one at the south end of the service area. There has been a protest for over 170 days in front of Holston Valley Medical Center, and not one single time have Ballads leadership talked to the very polite protesters.

https://ift.tt/eA8V8J Submitted October 24, 2019 at 09:11AM by Deathmedic66 https://ift.tt/31IRCJc