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Mayo Clinic was found to be suing patients– who should have qualified for charity care– over medical debt, the Minnesota Attorney General found.

At Albany Medical Center Hospital, emergency room wait times are among the longest in the nation.

The St. Mary’s Medical Center lab’s noncompliance in regulation “has already caused, is causing, or is likely to cause, at any time, serious injury or harm, or death, to individuals served by the laboratory or to the health and safety of the general public.”

Why should the government and patients pay more for identical care, just because the provider is linked to a hospital?

Ballad Health is the only option for care for over 1 million people in Appalachian Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Unfortunately, the quality of care has gone downhill since its merger in 2018. Patients report staying in the waiting room for 12-14 hours, “paper-thin staffing” and often driving over an hour away to receive care.

$297,461, which included two ambulance rides, an emergency room visit, and a couple of days in pediatric intensive care. Antivenom alone accounts for $213,278.80 of the total bill.