West Suburban Medical Center has not made any payments toward its $71 million debt to the State of Illinois, $2.6 million of which the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services has recouped.
Instead, West Suburban CEO Manoj Prasad said that, like other financially strapped safety net hospitals, West Sub is using its cash to “provide care to the community, instead of pay assessments to the state.”
In an email to Growing Community Media, Prasad added that many safety net hospitals financially struggle to provide care for uninsured or under-insured patients…