Original article link posted a few days ago from the Los Angeles Times...BD
Executives at Prime Healthcare, Desert Valley Hospital’s parent company, sent a barrage of critical letters to the Los Angeles Times for its July 8 story about chairman Prem Reddy.
Accusing its author, Daniel Costello, of “entirely fabricating” quotes and taking others out of context, Dr. Reddy and several colleagues said the story, which took a critical look at Dr. Reddy and his company, “is factually inaccurate and erroneous.”
A condensed, Associated Press version of the story appeared on A1 of Monday’s Daily Press.
“As a practicing physician for over 30 years, I take serious offense to Costello’s gross assertion that I stated ‘that patients may simply deserve only the amount of care they can afford.’ ”“When premiums were $100, insurance companies paid 85 percent. Now that premiums are $400 to $500, they’re still paying $85 to hospitals. The premiums have gone up, and they are pocketing all the money.”
Although Dr. Reddy was deeply offended by what he considers to be “a gross misstatement of the facts,” he said he would not take legal action because he considers it a waste of time.
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