For years, Heartland Regional Medical Center, a nonprofit hospital in the small city of St. Joseph, Missouri, had quietly sued thousands of its low-income patients over their unpaid bills. But after an investigation by ProPublica and NPR prompted
Nonprofit Hospital Stops Suing So Many Poor Patients: Will Others Follow?
One Missouri hospital sued thousands of uninsured patients who couldn’t pay for their care, then grabbed a hefty portion of their paychecks to cover the bills.
By Paul Kiel

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