ICYMI: Thirty percent of Minnesota hospitals are losing millions of dollars a year, including Hennepin Healthcare and North Memorial Health, as well as rural hospitals across the state.
MHA CEO and president Dr. Rahul Koranne joined Esme Murphy on WCCO to discuss this ongoing, systemic issue.
“There’s a structural problem in how hospitals are getting paid. The math is not mathing,” said Dr. Koranne.
Thirty-one hospitals around the state are financially distressed. Koranne says one solution is to make the for-profit sectors of the health care industry pay more — specifically, in his view, the pharmaceutical companies.
“These are the pharmaceutical companies, the trillion-dollar for-profit pharmaceutical companies that are making billions in dollars of profit.”
