Hospitals Lose Lawsuit
A lawsuit that was started six years ago ended with manyAdventist hospitals in the Chicago area on the losing end of a settlement agreement.
It seems that the hospitals get a tax exemption for treating the non and under insured and the suit says they have been charging the same top rates to the non and under insured as those who are not eligible for those rates.
To be eligible a family of four would have to make less than 82,000 a year to qualify for dicounts and those who have no insurance or are at twice the poverty level I believe are not supposed to be charged at all.
The hospitals have been ordered to repay those people from 2000 to present who were charged or overcharged.
The word is also that they haven’t been treating enough of those people to justify the tax exemption that they are getting.
I don’t think many people are aware of this. I always thought no hospital could turn you down for treatment if it was a matter of life or death. It seems you don’t have to wait until you’re at death’s door, which makes sense because it could save money. The more progressed a disease becomes the more has to be done and the more expensive the costs.
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