SanStone Health and Rehabilitation, if you look them up on Medicare.gov they operated and managed by by Ardent Health and Rehabilitation. The strange thing is Ardent Health and Rehabilitation doesn't seem to own or operate any health and rehabilitation facilities. Why do they need two different names for one company?
The only Ardent on the Securities and Exchange website is Ardent Health Services, located in Nashville Tennessee. Ardent Health Services operates 11 Pharmacies in New Mexico, and fourteen Hospitals including, Baptist St. Anthonies Health Systems in Amarillo Texas, Hillcrest Healthcare systems in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Lovelace Healthcare Systems in Albuquerque N.M..
One would think that the name Ardent would be protected from use by other companies, especially in the health care field. Either Ardent Health and Rehabilitation is part of Ardent Health Services, or the name is not protected. Why does a company in Tennessee own and operate hospitals and pharmacies out West, but nothing locally?
This is an example of why the regulatory agencies are having a hard time keeping up with who is who. Add to that the fact that politicians are constantly cutting the budgets of enforcement agencies to protect their own investments, and you have a perfect example of what is wrong with the system.
Then there are the government contractors that are supposed to insure integrity of the system. How does a company that is competing for the contracts maintain their own integrity? Obviously they are not going to aggressively pursue the very people they work for! Is it a coincidence that Advancemed, the Government contracted Zone Program Integrity Contractor (ZPIC) for Medicare is cant see any fraud?
Next you have on site pharmacy consultants working for one pharmacy, is that not a monopoly. I'm pretty sure the consultants wouldn't be able to keep their jobs filling prescriptions for other pharmacies.
In the case of Hendersonville Health and rehabilitation, the on site pharmacist works for Blue Ridge Pharmacy. The owner of Blue Ridge Pharmacy is part owner of Hendersonville Physicians and Associates, who own Hendersonville Health and Rehabilitation. He is also supervised by two physicians, Dr. Larry J. Russell, Mom's doctor at HHR and Donald L. Culver, who wrote a lot of prescriptions at BeyStone. I overheard one of their reps one day pushing a refill program on a patient at HHR, they went so far as to offer gifts.
I have suspected for some time that Blue Ridge Pharmacy was filling all the prescriptions at all the nursing homes in Hendersonville. I had seen them at HHR and BeyStone, yesterday I saw them on the road and followed them to the Laurels. It just so happens that Dr. Russell is the medical director at The Laurels as well as the supervisor of the owner of Blue Ridge Pharmacy. Is this not a violation of some sort of antitrust law, if not it should be. This is where the politicians are helping them out, changing regulations to make it easy for them to get away with it.
The system is not working, you have one group providing every aspect of nursing home care. I am pretty sure they are also providing the DME's, I just cant prove it yet. There is also one mobile Xray company that seems to be doing all the xrays at the homes. Carol Lloyd Inc. also MMDS is likely the sole provider of mobile Xrays and diagnostics for this particular group. I'm sure there is plenty of "gift" giving in this huge circle of "friends". I'm sure they have each spent the night at one of Dr.Russells lake house or cabin in Gatlinburg.
I would be interested if anyone reading this knows where else Blue Ridge Pharmacy delivers to, you could just leave a comment. More to come.
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