Steward Health Care’s CEO Ralph de la Torre has for years avoided publicly responding to accusations that he profited at the expense of patients at the dozens of community hospitals around the country owned by the Dallas-based company. Now, he’ll have to face those questions on Capitol Hill after a bipartisan group of senators voted Thursday to launch an investigation into Steward and issued a subpoena to its reclusive chief executive.
De la Torre, who one lawmaker called “the poster child” for corporate greed in health care, was ordered to testify at a public hearing on Sept. 12 before the Senate Committee on Healthcare, Education, Labor and Pensions.
“It is time for Dr. de la Torre to get off this yacht and explain his financial chicanery,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, said before the vote..
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