They May Owe Nothing — Half-Million-Dollar Dialysis Bill Canceled

(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News)

Fresenius, one of the two largest dialysis providers in the U.S., has agreed to waive a $524,600.17 bill for a man who received 14 weeks of dialysis at a clinic in Montana.

Kaiser Health News, NPR and CBS This Morning told Sovereign Valentine’s story this week, as part of the “Bill of the Month” series, a crowdsourced investigation that seeks to understand the exorbitant health care bills faced by ordinary Americans.  Continue reading article here…

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