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Native American Patients Are Sent to Collections for Debts the Government Owes
Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed as Surgery
California’s ‘Care Courts’ Are Falling Short
Más californianos están muriendo por el frío. Gran parte son personas mayores sin techo
KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: A Killing Touches Off Backlash Against Health Insurers
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- Native American Patients Are Sent to Collections for Debts the Government Owes
- Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed as Surgery
- California’s ‘Care Courts’ Are Falling Short
- Más californianos están muriendo por el frío. Gran parte son personas mayores sin techo
- KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: A Killing Touches Off Backlash Against Health Insurers
Native American Patients Are Sent to Collections for Debts the Government Owes
Tescha Hawley learned that hospital bills from her son’s birth had been sent to debt collectors only when she checked her credit score while attending a home-buying class. The new mom’s plans to buy a house stalled. Hawley said she didn’t owe those thousands of dollars in debts. The federal government did.Hawley, a citizen of…
Removing a Splinter? Treating a Wart? If a Doctor Does It, It Can Be Billed as Surgery
When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son to a pediatrician last summer for a checkup, the doctor noticed a little splinter in the child’s palm. “He must have gotten it between the front door and the car,” Lai later recalled, and the child wasn’t complaining. The doctor grabbed a pair of forceps…