WARREN, Ohio – Quorum Health, the Brentwood, Tenn., company that now owns Steward Health Care System’s transition service agreements, disputes claims that it raised prices for records and billing services that would have been provided to Insight Health Systems Ohio.

In November 2024, Insight acquired the former Trumbull Regional Medical Center in Warren and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Howland from Steward, which filed bankruptcy in May 2024. 

A spokesperson for Quorum Health and its affiliate, Golden Sun TSA Services, claims it worked with Steward to assume the remaining transition service agreements, which would have been terminated as part of the restructuring of Steward in U.S. Bankruptcy Court on Feb. 28.

In the process, Quorum claims it and Golden Sun representatives were in discussions with Insight for several weeks and offered Insight an option to participate and preserve key hospital functions at no increased costs, but Insight chose not to participate.

The claim contradicts Insight’s announcement about the situation, which stated Steward had already imposed millions in overhead costs and prevented millions more in revenues from reaching the hospital. Then Steward sold its management functions to Golden Sun with “even greater costs to cover their debts” without Insight’s consent.

Trumbull County Commissioner Dennis Malloy also had characterized the cost by Golden Sun as “outlandish” and outside the budget following his conversations with the Insight administration.

Quorum indicates through the agreement that the 600 employees providing the services under Steward TSAs retained their jobs, with more than 25 hospitals able to continue providing uninterrupted care. 

Golden Sun is providing patient billing, insurance, claims processing, revenue recovery, quality reporting, IT security and both maintenance and management of electronic health records.

Subsidiaries of Quorum Health also acquired two Texas hospitals – Odessa Regional Medical Center and Scenic Mountain Medical Center – in October as part of Steward’s bankruptcy.

Insight decided Tuesday to stop accepting patients – except behavioral health patients – for inpatient-treatment at its Warren hospital until it can get its own systems in place.

Pictured at top: Insight Hospital and Medical Center Trumbull in Warren.