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Colorado Supreme Court rejects hospital’s attempt to enforce quarter-million-dollar surgery bill
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A woman is not liable for paying a nearly quarter-million-dollar medical bill after her surgery because she neither knew about nor agreed to the hospital’s secret pricing list, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. Under longstanding contract law, Lisa Melody French could not have consented to pay the price listed in the “chargemaster” because…
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Justices critical of hospital charging surgery patient $229,000 in medical bill
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Members of Colorado’s Supreme Court swung hard at the charging practices of hospitals on Tuesday, at times veering away from the narrow issues in the case before them and venturing into a broader critique of the American healthcare system. The appeal at hand centered on the state Court of Appeals’ interpretation of charges Lisa Melody…
