Beyond Hospital Misbehavior: An Alternative Account of Medical Related Financial Distress
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Abstract
II. CONSTRUCTING THE PROBLEM OF HOSPITAL MISBEHAVIORIn a series of investigative reports, former patients, financially devastated by aggressive hospital collection, emerged on the public's radar screen.The reporting, including prominently featured Wall Street Journal stories, showed what happened when people got sick, received high-priced medical care, and were unable to pay on the terms the hospitals required.Their wages were garnished, 12 their homes were liened, 13 and their bank accounts were frozen. 14 They entered into payment plans that would last for years as interest compounded regularly. 15 Reporters amplified these examples with statistics on hospital lawsuits and liens, suggesting widespread impropriety. 16 The stories highlighted some patients who even landed in jail when they were sued for nonpayment of their hospital bills and failed to comply with court orders. 17Each story had a victim, but the main attraction of this reporting was the villain: a large and impersonal hospital.Hospitals did at least three things wrong, according to these reports.They charged uninsured patients a higher price than most insured patients and their insurers pay. 18 They billed patients who perhaps should have been eligible for charity care. 19And they engaged in aggressive debt collection to recover these sums. 2012
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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