Peggy Dula was driving two of her siblings on an unfamiliar road in Illinois when she pulled into an intersection and crashed into a truck. All three were taken to a nearby hospital, and though Peggy was the least injured, her ambulance bill was almost three times her...
The need for ambulatory services has seen an increase in recent years, and as a result ambulance transport claims have also risen. Payers generally cover ambulance services for patients whose medical condition is such that air transport is medically necessary. EMS...
After the nursing home where Leann Sample worked was bought by private investors, it started falling apart. Literally. Part of a ceiling collapsed on a nurse, the air conditioning conked out regularly, and a toilet once burst on Sample while she was helping a resident...
Despite growing evidence of the harm caused by medical debt, hundreds of U.S. hospitals maintain policies to aggressively pursue patients for unpaid bills, using tactics such as lawsuits, selling patient accounts to debt buyers, and reporting patients to credit rating...
Kyle Kopec, Braden Health’s chief compliance officer, holds up a sample of diagnostic images left behind at a Tennessee hospital. As the company takes over abandoned hospitals, a major task is figuring out what to do with old medical records stacked in...
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