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It's Not Just Those Eye-Popping Medical Bills That Have Collectors Knocking -- Small Ones Often Cause Trouble Too
It doesn't take a huge unpaid medical bill to make a collection agency come calling ... and calling. Researchers found in a study of credit reports that more than 2 percent of adults had medical bills under $200 sent to a collection agency. Over half of the annual medical collections were for less than $600, according to the study, which examined 2016 credit reports for more than 4 million unidentified people. (Murphy, 8/29)
Meanwhile, a look at what happened to the patient who got a bill for more than $100,000 after a heart attack听鈥
Kaiser Health News: Watch: What Happened To That $109,000 Heart Attack
Kaiser Health News editor-in-chief Elisabeth Rosenthal discusses the latest Bill of the Month installment on 鈥淐BS This Morning鈥 on Wednesday.听 The story of a high school teacher who听faced an outrageous hospital bill听is part of an ongoing crowdsourced investigation by KHN and NPR. (8/29)
Read The Original KHN Story:听A Jolt To The Jugular! You鈥檙e Insured But Still Owe $109K For Your Heart Attack
