Woman Taken to ‘Wrong’ Hospital Faces Bankruptcy
A project manager for a manufacturing company, she is one year removed from a cardiac arrest and the subsequent physical recovery is being dwarfed by a near-impossible fiscal recovery. She was sent last Sept. 9 to the emergency room at St. Mary’s Hospital, which was out of her insurance network, instead of to Meriter Hospital, three blocks away, which was covered by her insurance. It’s the difference between a $1,500 maximum out-of-pocket expense and the now-$50,000-plus she’s facing in bills.
“I was unconscious when I was taken to the hospital,” she said. “Unfortunately, I was taken to the wrong hospital for my insurance.