If you are in the hospital emergency room, and that's where most people without insurance go, then you get treated.
Otherwise, many hospitals are turning to pay in advance for services.
Please Pay in Advance The Wall Street Journal reports Hospitals Are Refusing to Do Surgeries Unless You Pay in Full First For years, hospitals and surgery centers waited to perform procedures before sending bills to patients.
Now, more hospitals and surgery centers are demanding patients pay in advance.
Federal law requires hospitals to take care of people in an emergency.
Roughly half the debt hospitals wrote off last year was owed by patients with insurance, the Kodiak analysis found.
No Skin in the Game It's interesting to note that hospitals want payment in advance for births.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/hospitals-turn-to-pay-in-advance-in-full/
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