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Prevalence and Characteristics of Virginia Hospitals Suing Patients and Garnishing Wages for Unpaid Medical Bills. | LitMetric
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Prevalence and Characteristics of Virginia Hospitals Suing Patients and Garnishing Wages for Unpaid Medical Bills.

William E Bruhn Lainie Rutkow Peiqi Wang Stephen E Tinker Christine Fahim Heidi N Overton Martin A Makary

JAMA

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.

Published: August 2019

This study uses 2017 court records to characterize how frequently Virginia hospitals take legal action to garnish patients’ wages to recover unpaid medical expenses, and the characteristics of hospitals and patient employers associated with the actions.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6593627PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2019.9144DOI Listing

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