Yale-New Haven
Health has chosen Deloitte & Touche to monitor compliance with
conditions of their acquisition of Lawrence + Memorial Healthcare. The
conditions on the unusual acquisition were set in place by the state to protect
prices in the new monopoly market, protect health services for southeastern CT,
oversee promised investments in the region, and to enforce ACA community
benefit requirements. The monitor’s independence, including perceptions, is
crucial to effectiveness. However, YNHH has paid Deloitte over $30 million over
the last ten years in other capacities and Deloitte paid a million dollar fine
to settle charges of violating auditor independence rules in 2015. DPH has already approved the choice but a
diverse coalition of consumers, labor, elected officials, and community
representatives has called on the state to rescind that approval and support an
independent choice in a transparent process. DPH also refused to meet with the
coalition.
