Hold Up, Did This Health Care Provider Defraud The System Using Covid Tests?
The Michael Berry Show
KTRH
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Michael Berry Show Houston's U.M.C Hospital to pay more than $2 million for allegedly overbilling for care and COVID tests. |
| 0:17.3 | You've seen this operation on TV. These were the heroes during COVID. You know the little Academy tents they'd put up that have a long line and people be |
| 0:23.8 | going through doing the test. Oh they were out there they were just testing trying |
| 0:28.6 | to keep people safe from the COVID. Yeah not the nurses making dance videos. |
| 0:35.0 | These are the tireless workers. |
| 0:37.5 | Just look at them in there, a hazmat suit. |
| 0:41.0 | My goodness, we might sprinkle a few illegals in there. They're all just pitching |
| 0:46.4 | together for the community to keep grandma from dying. The story goes |
| 0:51.6 | United Memorial Medical Center. |
| 0:56.0 | A Houston Hospital that entered the national spotlight during the pandemic |
| 1:00.0 | has been ordered to pay more than $2 million after allegedly overbilling the government for |
| 1:06.2 | COVID-19 tests and patient care. |
| 1:09.7 | The U.S. Attorney's Office announced Wednes Day. |
| 1:13.3 | The hospital had multiple locations in Houston, most visibly at its main campus at 5.10 West Tidwell, positioned in a low income and medically vulnerable part of the city. |
| 1:30.0 | Oh, the vulnerable. You know, I want to live in America or the vulnerable. You know I want to live in America where the |
| 1:34.7 | vulnerable can have lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of government |
| 1:40.4 | large ass heaped on them and while we're heaping that government large ass heaped on them. |
| 1:43.0 | And while we're heaping that government large ass |
| 1:45.5 | and you gotta spread it so broad because there's lots of voters |
| 1:48.7 | that all of them get hit so they remember to vote. |
| 1:51.9 | If a little bit, this to sprinkle, should happen to end up slopping on to |
| 1:59.7 | Rodney Ellis or Sheila Jackson Lee or Sylvester Turner. |
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