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Hospitals call lawsuits âlast resortâ to recoup reimbursement March 5, 2021 3:03 PM By Alex Ruoff (Adds Upper Chesapeake Health response beginning in sixth paragraph.)
Nick Mostris had hoped to buy his parentsâ home, situated on the outskirts of Baltimore County, from his brothers after their mother died in 2019.
Yet an almost 30-year-old hospital bill accrued by his father, who died in 2007 after a long battle with brain cancer, put that dream out of reach.
Mostris, a stagehand who still lives in the area, and his brothers discovered a lien on the property stemming from almost $26,000 owed to Fallston General Hospital, now part of University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health. That debt, originally about $6,000, ballooned because of court fees and interest accumulated over 19 years of legal battles between lawyers with the hospital and the Mostris family, state court records show.
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In Annapolis Tuesday, the House Health and Government Operations Committee heard testimony on a bill that would limit hospital lawsuits against patients for unpaid bills.
The Medical Debt Protection Act would bar hospitals from suing patients for debts of $1,000 or less.
It would also create an income-based repayment plan before a lawsuit can be filed, and it would stop doctors or hospitals from placing a lien on a patient s property to settle a debt.
Marceline White, executive director of the Maryland Consumer Rights Commission, told WBAL News Now Extra that these lawsuits often target communities of color and medical debt is increasing during the pandemic,
Sen. Van Hollen: One in Ten Renters in Maryland Face Eviction, ‘In Desperate Need of Help’
Before the pandemic hit, Maryland already was dealing with a crisis in affordable housing. Since then, it has become more acute, and currently 214,000 Marylanders who are renters are facing eviction, according to U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen.
“That’s one in 10 Marylanders,” he said at Tuesday morning’s Roundtable on COVID-19 Housing Crisis. The delinquency rate on mortgage loans in the state is 8.8%, he noted. “We are in an emergency. Obviously, people are hurting.”
According to a news release from October 2020, about 20,000 households, or 15 percent of the 130,000 rental households in Montgomery County, were behind on their rent and at risk of eviction due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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