She Paid Her Husband鈥檚 Hospital Bill. A Year After His Death, They Wanted More Money.
A widow encountered a perplexing reality in medical billing: Providers can come after patients to collect well after a bill has been paid.
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A widow encountered a perplexing reality in medical billing: Providers can come after patients to collect well after a bill has been paid.
Patient advocates are tackling the 鈥渙verwhelming task鈥� of connecting people with health insurance as millions lose coverage due to the end of pandemic protections on Medicaid eligibility.
To drive down costs, insurers are bypassing hospital system pharmacies and delivering high-priced infusion drugs, including some used in chemotherapy, via third-party pharmacies. Smarting from losing out on billing for those drugs, hospitals and clinics are trying to convince states to limit this practice, known as "white bagging."
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