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UVA has ruined us: Health system sues thousands of patients, seizing paychecks and putting liens
WaPO ^ | 9/9/2019 | J. Hancock and E. Lucas

Posted on 09/09/2019 11:30:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog

Heather Waldron and John Hawley are losing their four-bedroom house in the hills above Blacksburg, Va. A teenage daughter, one of their five children, sold her clothes for spending money. They worried about paying the electric bill. Financial disaster, they say, contributed to their divorce, finalized in April.

Their money problems began when the University of Virginia Health System pursued the couple with a lawsuit and a lien on their home to recoup $164,000 in charges for Waldron’s emergency surgery in 2017.

The family has lots of company: Over six years ending in June 2018, the health system and its doctors sued former patients more than 36,000 times for over $106 million, seizing wages and bank accounts, putting liens on property and homes and forcing families into bankruptcy, a Kaiser Health News analysis has found.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: blacksburg; health; healthcare; healthcarebills; payer; single; uva
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And so the drumbeat begins. Look for a deluge of stories about EEEEEEVIL hospitals destroying peoples' lives, and oh, if ONLY we would elect Democrats and socialize medicine none of this would be happening.
1 posted on 09/09/2019 11:30:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Probably would’ve been cheaper to go in as a cash patient.


2 posted on 09/09/2019 11:33:24 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Buckeye McFrog

UVA is a state run institution.

Irony.


3 posted on 09/09/2019 11:33:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I wonder how many lives were ruined by the IRS in this last year?


4 posted on 09/09/2019 11:34:08 AM PDT by schwingdoc
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Funny how all of these health care woes began in the Obama Regime.


5 posted on 09/09/2019 11:36:05 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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Funny how all of these health care woes began in the Obama Regime.

"That's not a bug, that's a feature."

6 posted on 09/09/2019 11:37:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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"The $164,000 billed to Waldron for intestinal surgery was more than twice what a commercial insurer would have paid for her care . . . . Charges on her bill included $2,000 for a $20 feeding tube."

They have to pay for all the hospital system administrators.

7 posted on 09/09/2019 11:39:57 AM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Should have gone in saying “No habla ingles’. Then it would be ‘free’.


8 posted on 09/09/2019 11:40:31 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Buckeye McFrog

The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN number one hiring is for debt collection.
Be very scared if your Dr suggests you go there.
Very few are really helped and many are up to their eyes in debt because they were improperly referred.


9 posted on 09/09/2019 11:44:34 AM PDT by Zathras
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UVA is also immersed in the whole LGBTQP thing. Go to an appointment there and you will find yourself facing some student who's there to "collect information". That information will include sexual preferences information. I was recently asked, with unabashed glee, if I was sexually active with male, female, or both. Sickening and offensive.

Further, they have sucked up ALL the surrounding doctors. My old doctor used to be independent, and I think he held out for as long as he could. Then his practice got sucked into the UVA system and the same mind numbing PC process-bot crappola got applied to everything. Shame. I liked him.
10 posted on 09/09/2019 11:48:10 AM PDT by softengine
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“Should have gone in saying “No habla ingles’. Then it would be ‘free’”

Yes actual cost of the surgery plus profit for hopital and doctors was probably less than 10k. The other 154k is to pay for all the protected classes who get care for free.

11 posted on 09/09/2019 11:49:49 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Confucius say:
“When state go blue,
your savings go red.”


12 posted on 09/09/2019 11:50:44 AM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hospital administrator Lagree : “Let’s go bankrupt some innocent families today.”

Assistant Whiplash: “Heck yeah! Especially the ones who haven’t defrauded the system or anything.”

Administrator: “Get these files down to DeSade in the Harassment Department.”


13 posted on 09/09/2019 11:52:29 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Darteaus94025

That is definitely t-shirt and bumper sticker worthy in all seriousness.


14 posted on 09/09/2019 11:53:04 AM PDT by wally_bert (Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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To: IndispensableDestiny

These gentlemen spell it out, quite clearly.....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uPdkhMVdMQ

There are options, folks just need to look.


15 posted on 09/09/2019 11:56:11 AM PDT by qaz123
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Gov. Coonman probably controls the board.


16 posted on 09/09/2019 11:58:12 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Obamacare run amok?...................


17 posted on 09/09/2019 12:00:42 PM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Am I temembering correctly? Obamacare meant medical bills are now on your credit hisory. I cannot remember if that change also made it easier to come after everyone who isn’t getting a free ride?
But yea, now everyone is showing up for dinner and no one wants to pay.


18 posted on 09/09/2019 12:07:44 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: fruser1

Probably would’ve been cheaper to go in as a cash patient.


That’s what I do. Ever since I heard of a company called the Rawlings group: https://www.rawlingsgroup.com/

Think of them as the “institutionalized ambulance chaser”.

Did you break your leg while playing at your grandma’s house? So you go to the hospital and insurance takes care of it. Then Rawlings comes after your grandma for payment.

With the exception of acts of God, subrogation means always being able to hold someone accountable for anything injury related.


19 posted on 09/09/2019 12:14:06 PM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: momincombatboots
now everyone is showing up for dinner and no one wants to pay.

You can be sure, however, that if an error was made, the lawsuits would be dropping left and right.

20 posted on 09/09/2019 12:15:03 PM PDT by bkopto
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