Secular Café: Debt collection in American hospitals

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Debt collection in American hospitals Apr 25th 2012, 12:05 I read this last night and I became sick. As a professional nurse, I felt outraged to discover that debt collectors are masquerading as hospital personnel. Although you don't have to be a medical professional to realize how inhumane our healthcare system has become. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/bu...ls.html?ref=us Quote: Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are being confronted by an unexpected visitor: a debt collector at bedside. Marcia Newton took her son Maxx to a hospital where debt collectors were among employees. This and other aggressive tactics by one of the nation's largest collectors of medical debts, Accretive Health, were revealed on Tuesday by the Minnesota attorney general, raising concerns that such practices have become common at hospitals across the country. The tactics, like embedding debt collectors as employees in emergency rooms and demanding that patients pay before receiving treatment, were outlined in hundreds of company documents released by the attorney general. And they cast a spotlight on the increasingly desperate strategies among hospitals to recoup payments as their unpaid debts mount.

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