Augie Curtis
speaker
209 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
Augie Curtis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.
Appearances
They really don't go to the buyer, at least my understanding of the law.
Now, the government's never taken a position to the contrary, and I don't want to speak for the government position, but an SCA liability as such doesn't flow to the buyer of a hospital, even if they acquire the agreement.
So, in other words, it's a very long-winded way of saying that they're –
You know, this legal issue is highly significant, obviously, and Sam has described it extremely well, and his firm has litigated it very well.
It's an important legal issue.
Eventually, it may need to be traversed, but there may be pragmatic ways to avoid the prospect so that the economics work out.
So hospitals that are in trouble can get transferred to people with deeper pockets.
Those people can
get the hospital working.
They don't have to wait two years to try to get a new provider agreement.
They can pick it up.
We can keep the care going to patients.
And all those important social goals that bankruptcy courts are very key in on can be dealt with.
So hopefully the government continues that pragmatic approach, and it'll help with these kind of issues without too much legal argument.
It may not be necessary.
I can't speak too much to those state opinions.
The way Sam's described it to me sounds as if they are correct, that they're not from the same essential contract, the same unified set of facts.
So I think, I mean, I have not read those opinions.
And, of course, it's not something that I dealt with at the government because we dealt with the Medicare side, not the Medicaid side.
But I think Sam's right that the overriding bankruptcy law is that this is recoupment.
Showing 161–180 of 209 · page 9 of 11
← Previous
Next →