One Texas hospital did bill Mexico $60,000 for expenses from delivering so many mexikids in one year. It was bankrupting the hospital. They sent a bill to Mexico and I remember in the article there was someone in the Mexican gov’t who received the bill and was laughing about it saying, “Who do they think is going to pay for this.” But in Spanish of course.
I know. Keep sending them bills and keep track of the bottom line. Every few weeks publish the amount every month for the amounts owed to US hospitals.
I went in for a proceedure some years ago and they wanted me to pay up front because it wasn’t covered by insurance. The amount was significantly more than what we’d first been told and after talking to the business office we found out we were having to foot the bill from the previous patient who’d skipped out back to whatever country they were from.