The clinic operated out of a city-owned building, free of charge, from October to March under little governmental oversight.
, which found that WEKA’s owners had been big donors to a political action committee supporting the election of Mayor Dave Bronson.
ADN reporters Michelle Theriault Boots and Emily Goodykoontz wrote the story. Theriault Boots explains how WEKA came to run the clinic and how hundreds of its patients wound up with fairly large bills.: WEKA is a small business owned by an Anchorage couple named Todd and Crystal Herring that started about a decade ago, and primarily they were providing transport services for mental health patients around the state, doing some private security.
Another was that after the clinic had been open for several months, patients started reporting being charged upfront $500, sometimes getting bills for $1,200, for these monoclonal antibody treatments that were, again, given free by the federal government and distributed in a free location provided by the city. And the owners of WEKA have an explanation for that.
And I should also say that what WEKA says about this whole controversy is that they stepped up at a time of great need to provide a service. It wasn’t seamless. They had issues with the billing and insurance. But they say that, from their perspective, their contributions to the mayor, they don’t believe are what got them the space. They believe that it was an emergency, and they were one of the few operators willing to do this kind of work.
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