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Hospitals illegally refusing to provide itemized bills
Boing Boing,
Hospitals are required by law to send an itemized bill on request within 30 days. When Mike Masnick received an $8,455 bill for getting a minor cut stitched in the emergency room, though, Dignity Health/CommonSpirit refused to do so. Masnick reports that it repeatedly ignored verbal requests after promising to fulfill them, sent inappropriate forms with no instructions on how to file them, gave him fake addresses to send it to when he asked, and refused to speak on the record when it learned he was a journalist. — Read the rest