It’s Not Just Hospitals That Sue Patients Who Can’t Pay

(By Blake Farmer, Nashville Public Radio for Kaiser Health News)

Nashville General Hospital is a safety-net facility funded by the Tennessee capital city. For a patient without insurance, this is supposed to be the best place to go in a city with many hospitals. But for the uninsured, it may have been the worst choice in 2019.

Its emergency room was taking more patients to court for unpaid medical bills than any other hospital or practice in town. A WPLN investigation found the physician-staffing firm that runs the ER sued 700 patients in Davidson County during 2019.  Continue reading article here…

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