US COVID-19 Survivor Receives $1.1mn Hospital Bill
This photo taken on June 11, 2020 shows a man in an ambulance outside the COVID-19 coronavirus ward at the the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash hospital in New Delhi. – Ashwani Jain succumbed to the coronavirus in an ambulance as his family pleaded with several hospitals to take him in, the latest victim of the pandemic sweeping through Delhi and exposing a deadly shortage of hospital beds.
But he recovered and was discharged on May 5 to the cheers of nursing staff — only to receive a 181-page bill totalling $1,122,501.04, he told the newspaper. Flor is covered by Medicare, a government insurance program for the elderly, and should not have to take out his wallet, according to the Times.
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