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B-164031(4) 1 (1973-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaegt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: $ - ~Ot o bz reeased onitside the General Account ing of1&e excep~t on t ie basis o1 specific appoa by-the Office of Congressional Relations, a record of which -6 is kep t by the Distribution Section, Publications ranch, OAS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES C.WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 9()---- RELEASED B-164031M JAN 10 1973 Dear Mr. Hechler: Your letter of July 20, 1972, requested that the General Accounting Office examine certain complaints you had received from constituents concerning the Mo~uaineer. jaily Health . 2 S° Sadthe Beckley Appalachian Regional (BAR) P. 22f Ho tes botgjia MFHP is a non- profit corporation established to ppj pehnsive health care to economically deprived citizens of Raleigh County, West Virginia. It is funded by-ihe Health Services and Mental Health Administration (HSMHA), Department of .Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW), under section 314(e) D of the Public Health Service Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 246(e)). The specific matters in your letter concerned (1) a trans- fer of approximately $85,000 from MFHP to the BAR Hospital and the effect of the transfer on salaries paid to MFHP em- ployees, (2) increases in the per diem rate for services fur- nished to MFHP patients by the BAR Hospital and the hospital's policy on the treatment of indigent p.atients, and (3) the BAR Hospital's policy relating to writeoffs of certain large debts owed to the hospital by the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) Welfare and Retirement Fund and the effect of such writeoffs on the status of the hospital's cardiopulmonary laboratory. You stated also that the complaints tended to suggest that the BAR Hospital, and perhaps the entire Appala- chian Regional Hospital complex, is being conducted on a less than fair basis which favors some organizations over others. We reviewed the information furnished with your letter and discussed the complaints with officials of MFHP and the BAR Hospital and of the Appalachian Regional Hospitals, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky. We also interviewed several MFHP em- ployees and reviewed a limited number of MFHP personnel rec- ords. We conclude that the complaints are generally without merit and that they appear to be attributable to a lack of information or understanding on the part of some MFHP and BAR Hospital personnel as to the administrative procedures of those organizations. 9646~F)3H2D

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