Hospital Billing Fraud

Last year, lawyers representing Universal Health Services, which owns and operates McAllen Medical Center and other Valley hospitals, filed an appeal to the Texas Supreme Court in their latest desperate effort to throw out cases that allege that their hospitals scammed thousands upon thousands of patients. The Texas Supreme Court handed the hospitals a huge […]

Thanks to a new federal law, all hospitals are required to post prices for their standard services. The new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) law, which took effect January 1st, 2019, requires hospitals to make public a list of standard charges via the internet. So, as of today, every hospital in the country

George Hahn of Malvern, Pennsylvania, had two echocardiograms from Paoli Hospital, using the same exact insurance only one year apart and received two drastically different bills. The first year, the procedure cost $339. The next year, the same exact procedure cost $3,484. How is that possible? Did the cost of an echocardiogram grow over 928% in

In yet another example of egregious hospital bills, Dallas-area resident Axelle Brown received an outrageous bill for using an out-of-network Doctor when she went into labor at her in-network hospital.

In stories we’d wish were false, Steve Cole of Dallas received an out-of-network hospital bill of $128,731.53 that his health insurance will not cover.

Absurd hospital charges are seemingly becoming more and more common but this is certainly one for the books. In this week’s episode of The Twilight Zone, a hospital in Provo, Utah charged $40 to allow parents to carry their newborn. From ABC News: Ryan Grassley’s wife, Lidia Grassley, gave birth to their second child, Samuel,