Imagine You Go Car-Shopping and Don't Like What You See. A Couple Weeks Later, a $700 Bill Arrives. They're Charging You for Visiting the Showroom.
[quote]Now you know how Taylor Davis feels. She said she went to the Emory Decatur Hospital ER in July for a head injury.
She sat in the waiting room for hours, but with no end in sight, she decided to leave.
"I sat there for seven hours. There's no way I should be sitting in an emergency room.. an emergency room for seven hours," she said.
A couple of weeks later, a surprise came in her mailbox.
It was a bill from the hospital for nearly $700.
"I didn't get my vitals taken, nobody called my name. I wasn't seen at all," Davis said.
An email sent to Davis by an Emory Healthcare patient financial services employee states "You get charged before you are seen. Not for being seen." [/quote]
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/woman-billed-700-after-sitting-in-er-waiting-room-for-7-hours-leaving-without-treatment
She sat in the waiting room for hours, but with no end in sight, she decided to leave.
"I sat there for seven hours. There's no way I should be sitting in an emergency room.. an emergency room for seven hours," she said.
A couple of weeks later, a surprise came in her mailbox.
It was a bill from the hospital for nearly $700.
"I didn't get my vitals taken, nobody called my name. I wasn't seen at all," Davis said.
An email sent to Davis by an Emory Healthcare patient financial services employee states "You get charged before you are seen. Not for being seen." [/quote]
https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/woman-billed-700-after-sitting-in-er-waiting-room-for-7-hours-leaving-without-treatment
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