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Sacramento, Calif., hospital uses aggressive approach to collect unpaid bills.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2004
The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 26--Mercy Healthcare Sacramento is the most aggressive local hospital chain when it comes to collecting unpaid bills from the poor and uninsured, yet it enjoys the same tax breaks and financial perks all of the county's nonprofit hospitals get by promising to provide charity care.
A two-month Bee investigation has found that the four Mercy hospitals in Sacramento County took 202 patients to court to collect more than $1.7 million in unpaid bills in the first half of this year. Mercy, owned by Catholic Healthcare West, filed four times as many collections cases in the local court and sought 11 times more in total payments as any other health care system operating in the...
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