hospital billing
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Price transparency enforcement starts next week for Colorado hospitals
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Beginning on Wednesday, hospitals in Colorado will be prohibited from pursuing debt collections against patients if the hospitals aren’t in compliance with federal price transparency laws. The new state law, created by House Bill 1285, bans noncompliant hospitals from using debt collectors, filing negative credit reports against patients and obtaining state court judgements for outstanding…
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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…
