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KHN reported in 2019 that UVA Health had sued patients 36,000 times over six years for more than $100 million, often for amounts far higher than what an insurer would have paid for their care.
University of Virginia Health System, which for years has sued thousands of patients annually for unpaid bills, said Monday it will cancel a massive backlog of court judgments and liens resulting from those lawsuits dating to the 1990s.
Combined with reforms UVA announced in 2019, the move is likely to benefit tens of thousands of families and make UVA Health s collections policies much more generous than those of many hospital systems, said scholars who study healthcare finance. The decision to wipe out liens that can drain home equity years after a hospital visit is extremely rare, they said.
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