Kansas City Copes With Trending Medical Bill Collections

Actually . . .

This is mostly just another local prog blog hit piece aimed at the Kansas midterm surge against an empty suit incumbent Senator . . . But there's a bit of decent info in here nevertheless . . .  

"The New York Times reported that, as a private obstetrician-gynecologist a decade ago, Marshall charged his Barton County patients 18% interest on unpaid bills, took them to court and sought bench warrants when they didn’t show up. The newspaper counted 81 times when Marshall’s patients were arrested. 

"Defense lawyers in the Kansas City area said bench warrants in debt collection cases aren’t common here. But they do see people being sued over unpaid medical bills on a regular basis."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Unpaid medical bills land hundreds of patients around KC in court each year. It's only getting worse

Nonprofit hospitals are required to help those who can't pay, but as medical costs rise and health insurance coverage shrinks, some patient advocates say hospitals need to do more.