Posted on 09/09/2019 11:30:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April.
Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued the couple with a lawsuit and a lien on their home to recoup $164,000 in charges for Waldron’s emergency surgery in 2017.
The family has lots of company: Over six years ending in June 2018, the health system and its doctors sued former patients more than 36,000 times for over $106 million, seizing wages and bank accounts, putting liens on property and homes and forcing families into bankruptcy, a Kaiser Health News analysis has found.
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Probably would’ve been cheaper to go in as a cash patient.
UVA is a state run institution.
Irony.
I wonder how many lives were ruined by the IRS in this last year?
Funny how all of these health care woes began in the Obama Regime.
"That's not a bug, that's a feature."
They have to pay for all the hospital system administrators.
Should have gone in saying “No habla ingles’. Then it would be ‘free’.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN number one hiring is for debt collection.
Be very scared if your Dr suggests you go there.
Very few are really helped and many are up to their eyes in debt because they were improperly referred.
Yes actual cost of the surgery plus profit for hopital and doctors was probably less than 10k. The other 154k is to pay for all the protected classes who get care for free.
Confucius say:
“When state go blue,
your savings go red.”
Hospital administrator Lagree : “Let’s go bankrupt some innocent families today.”
Assistant Whiplash: “Heck yeah! Especially the ones who haven’t defrauded the system or anything.”
Administrator: “Get these files down to DeSade in the Harassment Department.”
That is definitely t-shirt and bumper sticker worthy in all seriousness.
These gentlemen spell it out, quite clearly.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPdkhMVdMQ
There are options, folks just need to look.
Gov. Coonman probably controls the board.
Obamacare run amok?...................
Am I temembering correctly? Obamacare meant medical bills are now on your credit hisory. I cannot remember if that change also made it easier to come after everyone who isn’t getting a free ride?
But yea, now everyone is showing up for dinner and no one wants to pay.
Probably would’ve been cheaper to go in as a cash patient.
Think of them as the “institutionalized ambulance chaser”.
Did you break your leg while playing at your grandma’s house? So you go to the hospital and insurance takes care of it. Then Rawlings comes after your grandma for payment.
With the exception of acts of God, subrogation means always being able to hold someone accountable for anything injury related.
You can be sure, however, that if an error was made, the lawsuits would be dropping left and right.
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